How do leopards manage to get very heavy prey into a tree?

Leopards kill their prey with a bite to the back of the skull, the nape of the neck or the throat. Larger prey is disemboweled, and the guts are pulled out and discarded, and sometimes covered with soil. This makes the prey animal lighter and allows the leopard to haul it into the tree. the carcass is grabbed by the throat and, with sheer muscular strength, hauled up into the tree and cached on a suitable branch. Leopards will also feed on the ground when the prey animal cannot be hoisted into a tree, such as young giraffes.