A rhino curator consulted by Essex police over the sighting of a big cat near Clacton says images taken by holidaymakers were inconclusive.
British police are investigating reports of a lion being spotted in a field near a seaside town in the eastern county of Essex.
A tourist near Hoedspruit has received 60 stitches after she was bitten in the face by a lion cub whose bite narrowly missed an artery in her neck.
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/ 15 February 2012
A Johannesburg zoo employee has been killed by a lioness after trying to feed the animal or clean its enclosure.
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/ 2 November 2011
A game ranger is lucky to be alive after he was "pulled out" of a lion’s jaws in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, SANParks say.
A Zimbabwean animal sanctuary says a fully grown male lion has mauled and killed a South African volunteer in western Zimbabwe.