Storm Ciara: Wild dogs kill animals after escaping enclosu

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Picture caption The 12 canines had been later returned to their compound unhurt, West Midlands Safari Park acknowledged

Sixteen animals had been killed at a safari park after a pack of African wild canines escaped from their enclosure because of the spoil prompted by Storm Ciara.

Workers at West Midland Safari Park in Bewdley, Worcestershire, had been left “extremely saddened” by the loss of six deer and 10 sheep.

The 12 wild canines had been in a honest to win steady into a neighbouring enclosure in the early hours of 9 February.

It housed Persian fallow deer and Barbary sheep.

“At no level modified into there a threat to public security and there modified into no chance of any animals escaping the park’s perimeter fencing,” a spokeswoman for the safari park acknowledged.

The wilds canines had been returned to their compound unhurt, she added.

‘Extremely saddened’

“The wild canines entered the neighbouring compound thru a gated entrance which had been broken in the storm which hit Worcestershire earlier that morning,” the spokeswoman outlined.

She added: “Given their within most attachment to our animals, our workers are extremely saddened by the incident.”

With amber climate warnings issued as Storm Dennis is space to hit the nation on Saturday, the park spokeswoman acknowledged it’d be monitoring the wretchedness carefully and would create choices “in the very best interests of our animals and public security”.

In line with theWorld Wildlife Fund (WWF), the African wild dog is “regarded as some of the enviornment’s most endangered mammals”, with simplest about 1,400 left in the wild.

The greatest populations remain in southern Africa and the southern piece of East Africa.

The predator, which gathers in packs, hunts species similar to gazelles and could perchance well attain speeds of larger than 44mph.

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