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Lahore zoo returns three sickly leopards to importer: Rs2.5m paid for Rs10,000 animal [1]

Three black leopards purchased in February by the Lahore Zoological Gardens at more than 250 times the price the supplier had paid to import the animals from France have been returned to him because they have become weak and sick, Dawn has learnt.

Publication Date: 
06/04/2009
Bhagwandas [2]
Dawn (Pakistan) [3]
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Zoos [4], Wildlife [5], Leopard [6], Pakistan [7]
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