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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: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday July 21 2017, @02:54PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday July 21 2017, @02:54PM (#542386)

    And eat their prey alive

    Cruelty-wise, they're only second to humans.

    I dunno...aren't dolphins [deepseanews.com] supposed to be huge assholes, too?

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