A lion named Sylvester, escaped from a South African National Park. Helicopters will be used to track down the three year old animal, which may be put down as a result of his repeated breakouts from Karoo National Park in the South of the country. The same lion escaped from the park previously, that was happened in 2015.
A signal from Sylvester's tracking collar which was fitted after his last escape, showed he was outside the park on this Sunday and by Monday he was 20 km from the park's fenced boundary, in a mountainous area not easily accessibe by foot.
He has already killed cow.
During his last escape, he roamed 300 km from the park, killing 30 animals over three weeks before being shot by a tranquilizer dart fired from a helicopter. At the time, wildlife officials said he had been forced out of the park by older lions.
Lions were re-introduced to Karoo National Park, western Cape province, in 2010 after an absence of almost 170 years. The last Wild lion in the area was shot in 1842.
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