London - Animal-handlers spent six hours capturing a wild lynx as it stalked suburban gardens following earlier fears that the creature was a leopard on the loose, it emerged yesterday.
A team of handlers from London Zoo, who were called to an address in Cricklewood, north London, were shocked to find a European lynx - a powerful, agile creature about 2ft tall at the shoulders - "sitting passively underneath a bush".
The lynx was discovered at around 11 a.m. on Friday in the garden of Mr Alan Newman and his wife, Charlotte.