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A lion escaped from a zoo in southern tourist town of Manavgat and was shot dead after wounding a farmer on Sunday (July 6).

Zoo officials said the animal never left its enclosure and there was no danger to guests as it reopened this week.

Lions sometimes display their violent nature, even inside a zoo setting. Akili the lioness was fatally injured on July 18, 2022, after she was introduced to Josh, a new lion to the zoo at the time.

A baby lion was born in October, the Fort Worth Zoo announced in a Facebook post on Jan. 11, 2024. The cub, named Moja, is the first to be born at the Texas zoo since 2015.

An elderly lion in an Indiana zoo transmitted COVID-19 to the zookeepers who handfed the severely ill big cat. It is the first recorded time a zoo animal has passed the virus to a human.

The two lions, a male and a female, were shot in front of a large crowd of zoo visitors. The male lion was born at the zoo, while the lioness was rescued from a circus, local media reported.

The decision by the Copenhagen Zoo to shoot dead its giraffe, named Marius, in February to prevent inbreeding sparked widespread outrage. The killing of four healthy lions has prompted further dismay.