Ukraine: The lions lived at a shelter near Kyiv.
Madrid:
Six lions evacuated from war-torn Ukraine, including one rescued from a nightclub, have arrived at two animal camps in Spain and Belgium, the camps said on Thursday.
The lions, along with six tigers, two feral cats and a feral dog, arrived at the zoo in Poland last week by truck from a hideout near Kyiv after an adventurous two-way battle. day.
Four of the lions and feral dogs were brought in on Wednesday by a rescue center in Alicante, eastern Spain run by Dutch animal welfare charity AAP, the group said. in a statement.
The lions were brought to a shelter near Kyiv after being rescued from “catastrophic” circumstances, with one named Gyz being kept in a “small cage in a shopping mall”.
Another lion named Flori was kept as a pet in a small apartment, where it was fed cat food while another named Nila was rescued from the nightclub where it was raised to “entertain guests”. row”.
“It will be a challenge to improve their fragile health, step by step, through an adequate diet, exercise and rest,” the statement added.
Two other lions named Tsar and Jamil were brought into the Natuurhulpcentrum shelter in the eastern Belgian province of Limburg on Wednesday, the group said on Facebook.
It added that the animals would be quarantined for three months.
The remaining animals – six tigers and two feral cats – have so far remained at the zoo in Poznan, western Poland.
A zoo spokesman said the truck, which had driven nearly 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to the Polish border, encountered Russian tanks and had to avoid the Zhytomyr area, where Russian invasion forces had shoot.
At the border, the animals were transferred to a Polish truck while the Ukrainian driver returned home with his cubs.
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