An iconic scene from Dereck and Beverly Joubert’s film Eye of the Leopard where a curious Legedema discovers a newborn baby baboon that brings out a different response to the one you’d expect.

L Leopard attacks are common in many parts of India It is banter as usual in a small tea shop in Lauki Kala village bordering Nepal in India’s Uttar Pradesh state. Six village elders are discussing the upcoming general elections over tea. Children play outside in the sugarcane fields. But 43-year-old Shyam Prakash is unusually silent: his life changed since his four-year-old daughter Leela was killed in a leopard attack […]