Adopted Antelope Is Taken From Lioness
From Times Wire Reports
Kenyan game wardens separated a baby oryx from a lioness that adopted it, hoping to prevent the antelope’s starvation, officials said.
“It was becoming weak because it was not feeding,” an official at the Kenya Wildlife Service said. “We are feeding it with milk from our cows now.”
In January, the lioness adopted and protected another oryx for two weeks before a hungry male lion seized the oryx while the lioness was napping.
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