SEA LEOPARD CAPTURED
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post")
■ AUCKLAND, This Day. A fine specimen of ■ a sea leopard was captured oil the Karekare Beach on Monday. The animal was found on the beach, and, when approached showed fight. It was lassooed round the head and tail, and then, despite violent struggles, it was sledged to the boarding-house, where it was accommodated in the stable for the night. • . . ■ . ■
The animal was accepted as a gift from (.lie Karekare residents : for the Auckland Zoo, and yesterday it was brought by motor-lorry. to its new home, where it soon settler! down. peacefully -with other marine exhibits. The sea leopard is seven feet iv length, and a beautiful soft grey colour, interspersed with black ppots. It it is a very rare visitor to such a high latitude as Karekare.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 89, 12 October 1927, Page 14
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