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A lioness is on the loose near Berlin, police suspect. But whose is it?

By Victoria Bisset

20 Jul 2023 · 2 min read

informed Summary

  1. Police in the German village of Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg, received a call reporting a lioness chasing a wild boar. The animal has not yet been found and no local zoos, circuses, or animal facilities have reported a missing creature.

It was around midnight on a cool July night when police received an emergency call reporting an unusual sight in a small village near the German capital: a big cat, suspected to be a lioness, chasing a wild boar.

The sighting took place on a leafy residential street in Kleinmachnow, in Brandenburg state, which is home around 20,000 people, police said.

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