Zoo faces closure calls

A ZOO is facing calls to close after it emerged that a second lynx was accidentally asphyxiated within days of the killing of Lillith the lynx, who was shot after escaping from her enclosure at the attraction.

Borth Wild Animal Kingdom, near Aberystwyth, Wales, has been criticised for having “no understanding of wild animal behaviour or welfare needs” by the Lynx UK Trust, who said the second cat had died after keepers at the zoo tried to move it to another enclosure using a dog noose.

The zoo said: “There seems to have been a terrible handling error where it seems she twisted in the catch-pole and became asphyxiated.”