Cecil the lion was the undisputed king of his part part of the Zimbabwe savanna in July 2015. He was one of two male lions in the area, and his friend Jericho could be heard calling out for him after he was cruelly shot dead by hunters.
And the beautiful beast's passing wasn't quick or painless, and his death at the hands of American dentist Walter Palmer is believed to have taken 12 hours.
Palmer, from Minnesota, paid £35,000 to hunt and kill Cecil, who was well known in the area and being studied by experts at Oxford University.
Among them was Andrew Loveridge, who had been following the lion for eight years and was heartbroken by his sickening early death.
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