Post Mortem
Upon examining the body, Anderson found two Indian porcupine quills lodged between the toes of the leopard’s right forefoot, an injury preventing it from hunting its swift natural prey. It was also revealed that before becoming a man-eater, the injured leopard frequently fed upon the corpses of cholera victims left in the forest, thus habituating it to the consumption of human flesh.
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