Cecil hunter Walter Palmer 'wanted to kill an elephant after killing the lion' [View all]

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Source: UK Telegraph

9:00PM BST 30 Jul 2015

Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who shot dead Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe, asked to kill a massive elephant after shooting the protected animal – but was unable to find one sufficiently large enough, his guide has exclusively told The Telegraph.

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“I could not have seen the collar at night. We would never shoot a collared animal. I was devastated, and so was the client, we were both upset, and I panicked and took it off and put it in a tree.
“I should have taken it to Parks [the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlfe Management Authority], I admit that. So we did what had to be done. We took the head and skin, as the client had paid for the trophy.

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“We then went back to my place near Hwange. The client asked if we would find him an elephant larger than 63 pounds, (the weight of one tusk) which is a very large elephant, but I told him I would not be able to find one so big, so the client left the next day and went to Bulawayo for the night and then flew out (to Johannesburg) midday the following day.

“He was only here for a few days. He shot the lion he wanted to shoot, he paid for the trophy, which is the skull and skin. I took it to Bulawayo where we were curing it, prior to it going to a taxidermist for export to the US where it would be assembled and mounted. They do that better there then we do it here.”



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So, Walter Palmer was 'devastated', but then turned right around and asked the hunting guide to find an elephant with tusks 'larger than 63 pounds' for him to kill.

This cowardly assassin deserves every bit of harsh punishment that is surely coming his way.

He should be extradited to Zimbabwe to answer for murdering this protected animal.

Because "they do that better there then we do it here.”