"According to Brent Staplekamp at Hwange Lion Research, Jericho was alive and well at 8.30 tonight and moving around Antoinette Estate ( where Cecil was shot) with a female. I can assure you no one is hunting lion on Antoinette after the Cecil incident!".
A lion known to roam with Cecil the lion, named Jericho, was killed Saturday in Hwange National Forest in Zimbabwe, according to a report on CNN. Jericho was gunned down by a hunter operating illegally, Johnny Rodrigues, head of the Zimbabwe
There are conflicting reports that the brother of Zimbabwe's most famous lion, Cecil, has been shot by a hunter. Cecil was killed by American dentist Walter Palmer on July 1. Jericho was gunned down by a hunter operating illegally, Johnny Rodrigues
CNN reports that, according to a senior park official, Cecil the lion's brother Jericho, who is also a lion, was killed on Saturday in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park. Others have called this account into question. [UPDATED.]
This is just awful. Just days after it was announced that Cecil the Lion had been killed, we've learned that his brother, Jericho, was reportedly shot and killed by a hunter in Zimbabwe on Aug. 1.