Mexico airlifts big cats, coyote to US wildlife sanctuary
Source: Associated Press
Mexico airlifts big cats, coyote to US wildlife sanctuary
The Associated Press
Posted: 08/26/2015 12:34:25 PM MDT | Updated: 93 min. ago
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican environmental authorities loaded eight lions, two lynxes, a puma and a coyote aboard two military planes for a trip to a Colorado wildlife sanctuary on Wednesday, after the animals were found mistreated or abandoned.
The flight aboard two Mexican Navy transport aircraft was the second instalment in an airlift that will eventually take about two dozen animals to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado.
Biologist Ignacio Millan said it was the first time Mexico's Navy had participated in the animal relocation effort.
Millan said the lions, lynxes and puma had been taken from private homes, zoos or circuses where they were often mistreated.
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