Chinese police shoot dead a lioness on Anhui highway | World news | The Guardian

A lioness found prowling along a motorway in China after apparently jumping from a moving lorry has been shot dead by police, according to reports.

How the protected animal came to be on the road in Anhui, eastern Chinese, was not clear, but the illegal raising of endangered species is not unusual in China.
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Aside from a small population in north-western India, lions are native only to Africa, but the illegal raising of endangered species can be lucrative in China as some of their body parts are deemed to have curative properties in traditional Chinese medicine. There is no orthodox scientific evidence for such beliefs.

Chinese police shoot dead a lioness on Anhui highway | World news | The Guardian