The driver spotted the bicycle on the ground. The surprised men on the back scattered in all directions but the leopard grabbed one guy from behind, breaking his shoulder and collarbone. He then attacked a second person who tried to hide behind the vehicle. The man lost his left eye in the attack and the furious animal grabbed his first victim again. Luckily nobody died in the incident.
Leopards are so cunning that they often outsmart humans.
At night they are not scared of people and can move about without making a sound, with the added advantage of superior camouflage due to a mottled coat. In Kruger we have had several incidents where leopards entered rest camps in mysterious ways. In most of these cases the animals were fleeing from social pressures - for instance a young male giving way to the territorial dominant male of the area sometimes finds refuge in a rest camp or an area where humans are present. Despite their cunning, leopards also have their weak points. They will take any bait being put out for them in a tree and are mostly captured in this way with special cage traps or by carefully drugging a specific meat bait.