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November 8, 2012

Can Animals Develop Taste for Human Blood?

Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News


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Certain animal predators may become serial killers of people, suggest animal experts and reports of multiple deaths inflicted by particular animals.

Most recently, a ravenous leopard in Nepal is believed to have killed and consumed at least 15 people over the past 15 months.

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TAGGED: salt, humans, blood, predation, animals

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