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The two zoos have decided on a number of Asian and African mammals for Phase 2, which could begin in a couple of years: wild pigs called babirusa and wild cattle called banteng, both from Indonesia; barasingha deer, an Indian species; and two more African antelope species - lechwe and sitatunga.

Here, two days earlier, I had seen the lion in a walk-in freezer, alongside trays of rats, a sitatunga, and a severed giraffe leg, upright in a corner.

The next day, a girl of four and her parents came upon a similar scene, following the dissection of a sitatunga.

During our grueling five hours of nonstop hiking and bushwhacking, we startled several wide-eyed sitatunga and saw a couple of elephants ambling down a nearby path.

The Prague zoo, a major breeder of sitatunga antelopes, sent all import documents requested by the Johannesburg zoo and the animals were slaughtered because of "one missing veterinary examination," Prague zoo director Miroslav Bobek said.