While most Britons have to deal with little more than a stray fox strolling into their neighbourhood, residents of Nisak, an affluent city close to India's financial capital Mumbai, woke up earlier this month to find an angry leopard prowling their streets. When a crowd began pelting it with stones the startled animal sunk its teeth into a man's arm. Eventually after a seven-hour chase it was cornered and clubbed to death with iron rods.