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posted by martyb on Friday July 21 2017, @10:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-they-had-a-larger-park... dept.

Xanda the Lion is dead!

Two years after Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy-hunter in Zimbabwe, prompting global outrage, his son may have met a similar sad end. Xanda, a six-year-old lion with several young cubs, was reportedly shot on a trophy hunt. He is said to have died outside the Hwange National Park in northern Zimbabwe. The lion had been fitted with an electronic tracking collar by Oxford University researchers.

The BBC's Africa Correspondent, Andrew Harding, reports that at the age of six, Xanda was old enough to be legally targeted by big game hunters. These individuals, many from the US, UK and South Africa, pay tens of thousands of pounds for the deadly pursuit - thereby funding the staff who protect other wildlife in the National Park.

Cecil incident from 2015.


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @01:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @01:01PM (#542336)

    asshole predator.

    Man, how bad would that be. There you are, hanging at the waterhole with all the other predators, and some smug prick of a lion starts with "well, I mostly hunt gazelles, I prefer the young ones. Easier to catch and to chew, you know". Cheetah pipes up with "I eat anything I can catch, and as the fastest animal on earth I catch whatever I want" . Tiger turns to you and says "what do you eat?". Embarassed pause, followed by a quiet "assholes. I eat assholes."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @10:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @10:56PM (#542617)

    Come on, you know Mr. Possum doesn't dare show up at the waterhole when the gang's around. If he did, they'd be too busy mocking his tail to even start with the prey-bragging.

    (Seriously, the only thing uglier than a possum's looks is his dinner habits. Possums really do eat assholes -- they start there and work their way through the guts and other internal organs.)