31 July 2016
A lynx that escaped from Dartmoor Zoo in Devon has been
captured - after more than three weeks on the run.
The police had warned that the cat, named Flaviu, could be
dangerous if cornered.
The Carpathian lynx, the size of a large domestic cat, was
found after walking into a humane trap and is now back at the zoo.
Zoo owner Ben Mee told BBC Radio Devon it was "a huge
relief" to have got the animal back.
He said that they had been "living in the hope"
that he would wander into a trap looking for food.
"I've been speaking to lynx trackers all around the
world and I was getting more confident that he would end up doing this but the
timescale was the thing that worried me. They said it could be a week or six
weeks or six months."
Flaviu was trapped about a quarter of a mile away from the
zoo in woods at Hemerdon.
Thirty members of staff and volunteers began combing the zoo
but found no trace of the animal, concluding that he had left the park.
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