Cecil - lion

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Cecil the lion at Hwange National Park in 2010.
Cecil the lion at Hwange National Park in 2010.

Cecil was a male African lion who lived primarily in the Hwange National Park in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. He was being studied and tracked by a research team of the University of Oxford as part of a long-term study. On the night of July 1, 2015, Cecil was lured out of the protected area and wounded with an arrow by Walter Palmer, an American recreational big-game trophy hunter. He was then tracked and killed with a compound bow the following morning, between 10 and 12 hours later. Cecil was 13 years old when killed.[1]

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