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A moment of silence RIP lion brothers Cecil and Jericho

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Channel: Stock Market LIVE · 2015 · Pets & Animals

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UPDATE: JERICHO is ALIVE !!
A lion named Jericho, who is known as Cecil the Lion's brother, is feared dead in Zimbabwe today amid conflicting reports about the lion's fate.

The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, which is not an official government agency, told ABC News Jericho was shot and killed today at Hwange National Park.

However, a lion researcher told the Associated Press that Jericho's satellite collar has been sending normal signals indicating he is moving around.

"It is with huge disgust and sadness that we have just been informed that Jericho, Cecil's brother has been killed at 4pm today," the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said in a Facebook post. "We are absolutely heart broken."

Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, told ABC News Jericho was shot by a hunter and died at 4 p.m. local time, just a half hour after the park put out a statement at 3:30 p.m. announcing a ban on hunting all lions, leopards and elephants.

"The park released the statement at about 3:30, and not even half an hour later I got a phone call that Jericho was killed," Rodrigues said.

The death was confirmed by park employees, but the hunter was not in custody, Rodrigues said.

After Cecil's death, Jericho became the protector of his cubs, according to Rodrigues.

"The families had already united," he said.

ABC News' request for comment from the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, the government authority on wildlife in Zimbabwe, has not been immediately returned.

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