Big cat that attacked two-year-old was hunted down and shot dead to avoid risk of a repeatA leopard has killed a two-year-old boy inside a fenced-off staff compound at South Africa’s Kruger national park, officials said. “The toddler was only 30 months old,” the park said in a statement on Thursday. “In parks like the KNP (Kruger national park) predators do interact with tourists and staff and at times it may result in species like leopard getting habituated to people and losing their fear,” the park said. Kruger covers nearly 2m hectares (4.9m acres) and is home to over 500 bird species and 147 mammal species. The attack occurred near Crocodile Bridge, a tourist rest camp near the park’s southern boundary.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2019 16:52 UTC