Cosmo the African lion, confiscated from a meth lab where he was used as a guard animal, and a resident of the BioPark zoo since 2004, died early Monday on what was coincidentally World Lion Day – a global campaign to celebrate lions and lion conservation efforts.
Cosmo, who had kidney dysfunction and was diagnosed with lymphoma in June, was about 18½ years old, surpassing the median 16 years life expectancy for male lions in zoos, said mammal supervisor Shelly Dicks.
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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