Lioness ‘shot’ at park
PA Wellington An Otaki deerstalker, David Randall, shot a lioness at Paraparaumu at the week-end — with a tranquilliser dart. The hunt started late on Saturday at Paraparaumu Lion Safari Park when Eve, a lioness, jumped a twometre safety fence into the buffer strip separating the compound from the fivemetre boundary wall. The staff said that she was upset because her mate, Adam, was fighting another lion. Though she could not get outside the main fence, she was too agitated to be moved back to the compound and so the staff asked the police for assistance. The police called in Mr Randall, an experienced deerstalker and one of the few persons with tranquillising equipment and a licence to use it. The first carefully aimed dart from Mr Randall’s tranquillising rifle hit Eve in the shoulder. Twenty minutes later she was unconscious and able to be taken back to the compound. “I was relieved to hit her first time. Everything hinges on one or two shots,” said Mr Randall. ■
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