One of four lynx illegally released into Scottish Highlands dies
One of four lynx illegally released into Scottish Highlands dies
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Postmortem will be carried out on wild cat, one of four humanely captured in Cairngorms, to find cause of death. One of the four lynx illegally released into the Scottish Highlands has died overnight. The lynx was humanely captured near Kingussie in the Cairngorms national park on Friday but the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said it had died overnight.
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A spokesperson for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) said: “We can confirm one of them has died overnight. We will go through a postmortem but we won’t have the results for a few days.”. The cause of death is currently unknown. The spokesperson said the death demonstrated the dangers of an unplanned release of lynx in the wild.
