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Updated: June 5, 2025
In Ceylon all leopards are termed "chetahs" which proceeds from the general ignorance of the presence of the two species. The power of a leopard is wonderful in proportion to his weight. I have seen a full-grown bullock with its neck broken by the leopard that attacked it.
Finally, he adds that these changes cannot be attributed to loss of health or vigour, "when we reflect how healthy, long-lived, and vigorous many animals are under captivity, such as parrots, and hawks when used for hawking, chetahs when used for hunting, and elephants.
Their destruction should be encouraged by a government reward of one pound per head, in which case their number would be materially decreased in a few years. The best traps for chetahs would be very powerful vermin-gins, made expressly of great size and strength, so as to lie one foot square when open.
Real Cost of Land Want of Communication Coffee-planting Comparison between French and English Settlers Landslips Forest-clearing Manuring The Coffee Bug Rats Fatted Stock Suggestions for Sheep-farming Attack of a Leopard Leopards and Chetahs Boy Devoured Traps Musk Cats and the Mongoose Vermin of Ceylon. What is the government price of land in Ceylon? and what is the real cost of the land?
A quantity of fresh-turned earth lay scattered about, mingled with fragments of rags. Bones much gnawed lay here and there on the road, and a putrid skull rolled from a shapeless hole among a confused and horrible heap. The leopards had scratched him up and devoured him; their footprints were still fresh upon the damp ground. Both leopards and chetahs are frequently caught at Newera Ellia.
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