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No, leopards are generally nocturnal hunters. They eat almost any prey, including catfish, guinea fowl, pythons, cane rats, jackals, and baboons. Nonetheless, they prefer various wild hoofed animals weighing between 40 and 150 pounds (18 to 68 kg), such as the impala in Africa and the deer and pig in Asia. Most hoofed animals, however, are so agile that they may successfully elude the attack. In a report of seven observed rushes only three proved successful for the leopard. The species also preys on domestic animals and occasionally on humans. One leopard in India reportedly killed more than 200 people. An indication of the leopard's usual food consumption is the estimate that in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, leopards kill an average of one Thompson's gazelle, weighing about 30 pounds (13.6 kg), each week

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No, not usually. Monkeys and baboons make up a substantial part of leopards' prey in certain areas. There has been recorded cases of a troop of baboons injuring or even killing a leopard, but this is very rare and will be virtually impossible for a monkey.

However, monkeys, being closely related to apes, are far more intelligent than leopards and cheetahs. A monkey can easily pick a sharp stick or rock and use it to defend themselves or other monkeys.

A lone monkey would rather run than risk its life fighting a predator. But a group of monkeys working as a team could injure a predator, forcing it to give up, or, in very uncommon cases, kill the predator.

Animals with seemingly no biological/physical defenses use intelligence to defeat a predator. A group of dolphins can confuse a shark by circling around it, forcing the shark to either flee or faint. Dolphins can also ram sharks with their hard noses.

The same applies to humans, we have no natural biological or physical defenses against predators except our intelligence.

So, to answer your question, monkeys do have the intelligence to bring down a predator. But it's more common for them to force the predator to give up than actually kill it.

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Leopards do prey on monkeys. Leopards will eat a wide variety of animals including gazelle, impala, deer, wildebeest, rodents, and birds as well as monkeys.

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