Even then, to his credit, Ang Lee is never tempted to domesticate this cat, except briefly, when both boy and beast are starving and at death's door.

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In 2000 Harley balanced the engine on its Fat Boy, a 300-kilo beast, to reduce vibration.

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In 1995 a 14-year-old boy found a leopard skull in a river in Bodmin perhaps lending weight to the beast's existence and its demise.

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