Borth Wild Animal Kingdom
attracts large crowd of visitors as mother prowls cage while offspring eludes
staff and police
Monday 30 October
2017 18.10 GMTFirst published on Monday 30 October
2017 16.53 GMT
Zoo keepers kitted out with
thermal imaging equipment, nets and cages baited with rabbit have been scouring
a craggy hillside and the gardens of a seaside town in search of a wild cat
that made a daring leap for freedom.
Lillith the Eurasian lynx is
thought to have climbed a spindly sapling growing in the pen she shared with
her mother and two siblings and dived over a 4-metre fence and two electrified
wires, possibly as she chased a bird.
The year-old lynx – around twice
the size of a domestic cat – has
eluded the efforts of staff at the Borth Wild Animal Kingdom in
west Wales and those of Dyfed-Powys police, who provided a helicopter to
recapture her.
“We’re pretty sure we know
roughly where she is,” said Dean Tweedy, who runs the small coastal zoo with
wife, Tracy. “It’s a matter of tempting her back. It’s a waiting game. She’s
never hunted for herself or ate live food so she’ll soon get hungry if she can’t
catch rabbits or rodents.”
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