Carl Akeley Leopar. Carl Akeley noted philanthropist and respected wildlife conservationist punched a fucking leopard in the esophagus from the inside. Carl Akeley was an artist photographer inventor conservationist and the pre-eminent taxidermist of his day.
Carl Akeleys gyroscopic tripods were used by major studios through the late 1980s. While Akeley was recovering in a tent members from the camp brought the defeated leopards body and laid it down next to his cot. This man is a certified stone-cold leopard-wrestling badass.
Lucky for Carl he reacts quick enough to put his hands up to defend himself but unlucky for Carl he gets his hand caught in the leopards.
But after he killed a leopard by thrusting his right hand into the animals mouth and choking it to death with his left he was forever to be remembered chiefly for that 1896 encounter. This man is a certified stone-cold leopard-wrestling badass. Carl Akeley with the leopard that nearly killed him 1896. Carl Akeley had plenty of close encounters with animals in.