Lee Heidhues 7.21.2023
German authorities now say the lioness on the loose is no lion….it’s a wild boar.
The search ends. The drama is over.
The King of the Jungle continues to roam free.
Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 7. 21.2023
Police said on Friday that they had found no signs of a lion, or any other large predator, following a massive search around Berlin that was launched after reports of a lioness sighting on Wednesday night.

Two experts who examined the video footage that sparked the search told police that in all likelihood the animal in the video was a wild boar.
“Everything indicates it is not a lioness,” Michael Grubert, the mayor of the town Kleinmachnow where the suspected lion had first been spotted, said at a press conference.
https://www.dw.com/en/lioness-near-berlin-likely-a-wild-boar-police-say/a-66284417
Lee Heidhues 7.20.2023
A lioness in Berlin has taken it upon herself to take a road trip.
Local authorities are vexed because neither the Berlin Zoo or the Circus have reported an AWOL (absent without leave) feline.
Authorities can only conclude, at this juncture, that the lioness decided to leave her home at a private estate or is, alarmingly, being kept captive by an animal trader.
Let’s hope the wandering lioness is found and safely returnedto her native habitat.Which is not in the urban setting of Berlin but in the wilds of Africa.
Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 7.20.2023
A “loose, dangerous animal,” suspected to be an escaped big cat, was reportedly sighted in a Potsdam region on the fringes ofthe German capitalon Thursday, police said.
“It’s clear lions can’t drop out of the sky, not in Germany, at least,” said Professor Heribert Hofer, director of the…
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