Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
In his wonderful book 'Maneaters of Kumaon', Jim Corbett makes it clear that he'd rather go after a man-eating tiger than a man-eating leopard any day. Leopards are cleverer, less predictable and much less fearful of man than your tigers. So much so that a leopard will go into a house and take a child - something tigers would never do.
Yes, although the sheer size and evident power and pure aggression makes the tiger, for me, the scariest of the cats.

Mind you, when it comes to power, watching a leopard drag a freshly killed imapala of equal size up a tree is somewhat sobering.