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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.
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Cecil the Lion's Son Shot and Killed (Legally)
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Madness takes its toll.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @05:24AM
It says they "can". But they won't. It mentioned in the wikipedia link from earlier (the big cat predation one) that when given the chance they kill, get bored, and move to the next prey without finishing or, sometimes, even beginning to eat the body.
It's bizarre how detached from reality people are to try justify in human morals how cats behave. Cats (big or small) are notorious for trying to sink their teeth and claws in anything moving. Anyone raising a cat knows their "playfulness" is them getting off on hunting. You can try explain the instinct as a memory capacity issue and a hardwired instinct that mean they keep killing without getting bored until they tired. And when they're hungry, they don't necessarily remember the previous corpses so they turn to find new prey... But the end result is the same.