I've eaten both leopard and lion. Tasted to me like. . . . .yep, chicken.

I've eaten lion and about everything else we shot but hyena and croc. It was all pretty good with the leopard being excellent. Elephant was very chewy. None of it was worth $50,000 per pound

Mark

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
I've eaten lion and about everything else we shot but hyena and croc. It was all pretty good with the leopard being excellent. Elephant was very chewy. None of it was worth $50,000 per pound

Mark

I agree that leopard is really good. The back strap reminded me of pork loin chops. Didn’t care much for the lion I tried…. But the hyenas really liked it!

I don't eat cats or dogs. Or bush pigs. Period.

The wife of a close family friend used to hound me for warthog meat and on one occasion I had frozen and set aside several packets of leopard and warthog back-straps which I brought back home once the hunt ended.

Several weeks passed before I crossed her in a supermarket and was politely reminded if I had fulfilled my promise ... I told her I would drop off her order that same afternoon.

Back home I rummaged through the frozen packets pulling out 2 which matched the size and color of warthog back-straps and promptly delivered the goodies which she gracefully accepted.

Some time later we decided to BBQ some of the game meat we had in the freezer and to my horror discovered I had been landed with the warthog back-straps and guess where those belonging to the leopard had gone to?

When I bumped into her again I asked if she had enjoyed the warthog: "among the tastiest you ever brought me" ... she replied.

Sell it to the Chinese they will eat anything.

Well, if I ever have the urge to eat lion, at that price, I’ll go back and hunt another one and be money ahead!

I wouldn't pay 5 cents per pound!

The rank smell of one being gutted and cleaned will kill anyone's appetite for the meat!

Very funny Fulvio.

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I've eaten lion and about everything else we shot but hyena and croc. It was all pretty good with the leopard being excellent. Elephant was very chewy. None of it was worth $50,000 per pound

As a follow up to Mark's comments, I've eaten Croc (tail) and it was good. We had Croc tail appetizers on the Zambezi River Booze Cruise in Zimbabwe. Second Mark's comments on ele. No hyena or baboon. All of my Baboons were, for the most part, used for leopard bait. On Hyena: The crew buried the two hyena carcasses stating that not only would they not eat it, but no other animal would eat it either. I'm sure that part of that was due to superstition-but who knows.

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The crew buried the two hyena carcasses stating that not only would they not eat it, but no other animal would eat it either.

I have also seen Hyena carcasses untouched by any scavenger just rotting in the sun, though pretty sure that Crocs wouldn't be choosy.

don't forget mountain lion in north america one of the best eating therr is tastes much like veal

In Cameroon, they eagerly ate the hyena I shot. I’ve seen vultures take other things before hyena, but they eventually got hungry enough…

I too have ate some of most everything I have shot. The PH’s have more hang ups about it than I do.

The ones I refuse to eat- hyena (smell), and any form of rat/varmint.

I was willing to eat crocodile, but when we found human bones in its gut, I deferred, along with every one else in camp.

So far no lion meat as the PH refused it (and the staff wanted it more…) but ok with trying it.

The leopard I tried (again the PH wanted nothing to do with it) tasted like veal, but so little of it there, I really didn’t get a good sample.

The elephant was awfully tough, but if they had a cool room and let it hang for a couple weeks might help.

Rhino and hippo were actually quite good.

Bongo was excellent! Almost as good as eland.

I'd eat anything if I was hungry enough.

I have just never been hungry enough for pachyderms, dogs, rodents, hippos or cats.

But I have indeed seen other humans consume all of the above with great enthusiasm.

I have eaten snakes and reptiles, BTW, but could and probably will (I hope) live the rest of my life without doing so again!

Ernest Giles, the Aussie explorer, when dying in the desert found a baby wallaby fallen from its mother's pouch. "I pounced upon it. Ate it living, raw, dying, fur, skin, bones, skull and all."
Few of us know the true meaning of hunger. Merely the feeling that there is room in our stomachs for more food. When bushed once I started looking at my dog a bit sideways!

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When bushed once I started looking at my dog a bit sideways!

Little did you know that he was looking at you as well.