EXCLUSIVE: Raised in cages to be hunted as trophies like Cecil, and so used to humans that they think their killers are bringing them food – the haunting fate of South Africa’s ‘canned’ lions is exposed
By Martin Gould In Johannesburg, South Africa, For Dailymail.com
● Fresh outcry expected over fate of greatest of Africa’s big cats as new movie is released about ‘canned hunting’
● Blood Lions will be screened next month on PBS and shows how hundreds of lions are raised to be shot as trophies
● They spend their lives in cages then taste just a few days of ‘freedom’ inside reserves enclosed by electric fences
● The animals are so used to humans that when they hear vehicles and pick up the hunters’ scent they think they are going to be fed
● Hunting a lion costs up to $30,000 and an estimated 500 Americans are among the trophy hunters who come to South Africa for the ‘canned hunt’
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Daily Mail – Published: 15:20 GMT, 24 August 2015 | Updated: 15:24 GMT, 24 August 2015
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