Man-Eating Leapord in Nepal

The Daily Mail reports:

A ferocious leopard may have killed 15 people in Nepal over the last 15 months and now authorities have vowed to kill the ferocious beast.

The severed head of the latest victim, a 4-year-old boy, was found in the forest a kilometer from his home this morning, said Kamal Prasad Kharel, the police chief of the Baitadi district, an area 373 miles west of Kathmandu.

CNN reported that the creature dragged the child away into the jungle to eat, the 15th victim since the attacks began last year.

The police chief suspects that a single leopard, at most two, with a taste for human flesh is responsible for the deaths.

Maheshwor Dhakal, an ecologist at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation in Kathmandu, agreed that a group of the animals, which are common in the low mountain areas of Nepal, would cause even more bloodshed.

He said: 'Since human blood has more salt than animal blood, once wild animals get the taste of salty blood they do not like other animals like deer'.