The brother of Cecil, the lion killed in Zimbabwe by an American hunter in July, is not dead, a researcher monitoring the pride told Reuters , contradicting media reports that Jericho had been killed.
"He looks alive and well to me as far as I can tell," said Brent Stapelkamp, field researcher for the Hwange Lion Research Project, which is monitoring the lion with a GPS tag.
A Zimbabwean conservation organisation had posted on Facebook that Jericho had been killed at 4 pm (local time) on Saturday, a report picked up by some Western news media that was rapidly spread on Twitter.