Posted on 08/01/2015 9:55:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The brother of Cecil, the lion killed in Zimbabwe by an American hunter last month, is not dead, a researcher monitoring the pride told Reuters, contradicting media reports that Jericho had been killed.
"He looks alive and well to me as far as I can tell," said Brent Stapelkamp, field researcher for the Hwange Lion Research Project which is monitoring the lion with a GPS tag.
A group called the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force posted on its Facebook page that Jericho had been killed at 4 p.m. on Saturday, a report picked up by some Western news media that was rapidly spread on Twitter.
That generated a furious reaction on the social networking site where animal lovers had already been expressing their fury at the killing on July 1 of Cecil, a rare black-maned lion that was a familiar sight at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.
Stapelkamp said readings from Jericho's GPS tag indicated he was moving around as usual and appeared to be with a female.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Coincidence?
It’s the power of Cecil!
I’d bet he’s smiling from his new heavenly home now :)
You owe me a new keyboard, lol!
Well played!
“He looks alive and well to me as far as I can tell.” As far as I can tell???? He’s a great big beautiful lion. Hint: if he moves and roars, chances are he’s alive. Got it?
I’ve always been totally RIGHT!
On my Kindergarten class photo, I am wearing an “I LIKE IKE” button on my crisp, white lapel!
I might reply.
I usually don't....lol.
Be careful!!...with the new “law”...u could be his sister!!
I'm glad I read through all of the responses before posting again, I was about to get into all of this myself; thank you for posting it. My only quibble would be that the four-chord progression is also baked into twelve-bar blues, which was being sung in the rural South long before anyone would have heard of Solomon Linda; it's either something more indigenous to African music in general (most slaves came from west Africa, far fewer from Angola and other southern African areas), or simply something hard-wired into the musical experience.
I suspect the conservation activists just told a lie to increase the anger of Americans against hunting - turning up the fire. This what activists do - truth is very unimportant to them.
You conservatives just don’t get it. Jericho may self-identify as a tiger, or even a transgendered human. The statement in the article only clarifies that Jericho does indeed identify as a lion.
Very true, all one need do is peruse the 'Cecil' threads right here in River City.
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