HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Now there are two: Zimbabwe accused a Pennsylvania doctor on Sunday of illegally killing a lion in April, adding to the outcry over a Minnesota dentist the African government wants to extradite for killing a well-known lion named Cecil in early July. 
 
 Kristen Hall leads a group of protestors from Animal Rights Coalition and Minnesota Animal Liberation gathered in front of Dr. Walter Palmer's dental practice, Wednesday, July 29, 2015, in Bloomington,... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this image takem from a November 2012 video made available by Paula French, a well-known, protected lion known as Cecil strolls around in Hwange National Park, in Hwange, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's... (Associated Press) 
 
 Protestors leave signs and stuffed animals in front of Dr. Walter Palmer's dental practice, Wednesday, July 29, 2015, in Bloomington, Minn. Palmer has been under fire since his involvement in the death... (Associated Press) 
 
 A gate blocks the driveway where an outbuilding is visible on the property of Dr. Jan Casimir Seski in Murrysville, Pa., on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority... (Associated Press) 
 
 A gate blocks the driveway where an outbuilding is visible on the property of Dr. Jan Casimir Seski in Murrysville, Pa., on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority... (Associated Press) 
 
 No trespassing sign is posted on a tree on the property near the home of Dr. Jan Casimir Seski, in Murrysville, Pa., on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority... (Associated Press) 
 
 Road signs are placed on the edge of the road leading to the home of Dr. Jan Casimir Seski in Murrysville, Pa., on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015. Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority accused... (Associated Press) 
 
 Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority accused Jan Casimir Seski of Murrysville, Pennsylvania, of shooting the lion with a bow and arrow in April near Hwange National Park, without approval, on land where it was not allowed. 
 
 Landowner Headman Sibanda was arrested and is assisting police, it said. 
 
 Seski is a gynecological oncologist who directs the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. 
 
 He's also an active big-game hunter, according to safari outfitters and bow-hunting sites where kill shots identify "Dr. Jan Seski" as the man standing next to slain animals including elephants, a hippo, an ostrich and antelopes such as an impala, a kudu, and a nyala. 
 
 The Associated Press called and knocked on the door at Seski's home, which is set back among some woods outside Pittsburgh. The AP also left a message with an answering service for his medical practice, with no immediate response. 
 
 One image on the Melorani Safaris Facebook page, since taken down, showed Seski posing with the body of a small antelope in 2012, with a caption saying it was killed two days after he shot it with an arrow. Other captions described how his arrows penetrated organs and split bones. 
 
 "This Zimbabwe elephant is the sixth African elephant shot by Dr. Jan Seski," Alaska Bowhunting Supply claims in a caption dated September 2014, below a picture of the doctor posing above the dead beast's trunk and tusks. 
 
 "The arrow was shot quartering into the elephant, penetrated a rib and one lung, lacerated the heart and liver, and was recovered in the gut. The elephant went a short distance and died. With results like this, no wonder Jan is a firm supporter of our Ultra-Magnum Arrow System." 
 
 Alaska Bowhunting Supply didn't immediately respond Sunday to a request for comment, and it wasn't clear how the hunting supply company learned such details about the hunt. 
 
 Images of the doctor wearing camouflage and holding high-powered bows match those on Seski's website, where he wears a suit or hospital scrubs. His address and other identifying information given by authorities in Zimbabwe matches those of U.S. medical authorities. 
 
 A handful of Seski's neighbors said he mostly keeps to himself and that he'd been buying up the land around his property. Ernest Hahn said Seski put up no-trespassing signs, breaking the rural area's tradition of people feeling free to cross property lines to hunt. 
 
 Hahn said Seski can be "quirky," walking around wearing a low-slung pistol "like a gunslinger," for example, but he appreciates that his neighbor is protecting land from development. 
 
 "It seemed to me everything he does is aboveboard," Hahn said. "I've never seen him done anything illegal or unsportsmanlike at all." 
 
 Seski provided his name and other identifying information for a government database when he came for the hunt, Zimbabwe National Parks spokeswoman Caroline Washaya Moyo said. 
 
 "When hunters come into the country they fill a document stating their personal details, the amount they have paid for the hunt, the number of animals to be hunted, the species to be hunted and the area and period where that hunt is supposed to take place," she said. "The American conducted his hunt in an area where lion hunting is outlawed. The landowner who helped him with the hunt also did not have a have a quota for lion hunting." 
 
 Seski seemed like a "perfect gentleman" to Stewart Dorrington, who operates Melorani Safaris and owns a game reserve in neighboring South Africa where Seski hunted in 2012. 
 
 "He was a great guy," Dorrington said. "Everything he did was perfectly legal and aboveboard and a great help to our conservation efforts." 
 
 Dorrington said he converted his cattle ranch into a game reserve in the 1980s. He said funds from trophy hunting of antelope are essential to conserving wildlife. 
 
 Dorrington said he received an abusive phone call Sunday; his Facebook page was later closed from view after people began posting threatening comments. 
 
 Two other illegal lion hunts also were recorded last year in Zimbabwe, said Geoffrey Matipano, conservation director for the wildlife authority. He did not provide details on those cases. 
 
 Zimbabwean authorities have said they will seek the extradition of Minnesota dentist Walter James Palmer, alleging he lacked authorization to kill "Cecil." The lion was lured out of Hwange park, wounded with a bow and arrow and then tracked down and shot, conservationists said. 
 
 Palmer said he relied on professional guides to ensure his hunt was legal. Two Zimbabwean citizens were arrested and face charges. 
 
 Zimbabwe's wildlife authority has suspended the hunting of lions, leopards and elephants in the Hwange area, and said Saturday that bow and arrow hunts can be approved by only by the head of the wildlife authority. 
 
 In Washington, meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., announced the "Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act," which would expand import bans to species proposed for listing as threatened or endangered, as well as those already listed as endangered. 
 
 "The logic is that if you keep killing them, they will become endangered," Menendez spokesman Steven Sandberg said Sunday. 
 
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 Contributors include Christopher Torchia in Johannesburg; Kristen De Groot and Ron Todt in Philadelphia and Zach Brendza in Murrysville, Pennsylvania; and Deepti Hajela in New York City. ||||| The world's most-hated dentist has some company. 
 
 Pittsburgh doctor Jan Seski is accused of killing a lion during an illegal hunt with a bow and arrow near Zimbabwe’s protected Hwange National Park in April, the African nation’s government said Sunday. 
 
 Seski, 68, is a gynecologic oncologist and surgeon with a private practice. 
 
 A Zimbabwean landowner, Headman Sibanda, was also arrested and is assisting police with their investigation of the doctor, the National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said. 
 
 Sibanda is facing charges for hunting without a permit at his Railway Farm 31. He also is the owner of Nyala Safaris, which allegedly guided Seski. 
 
 Seski is the second American doctor who has been named in an illegal lion hunt. Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer created an international outcry when he killed a beloved lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month. 
 
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 On Sunday, one of Seski’s neighbors said the doctor once threatened to kill his Australian shepherd pups after they ran onto his sprawling property set back among woods outside Pittsburgh and dotted with “no hunting” signs. 
 
 “He brought them back with his caretaker,” recalled neighbor Ernie Hahn. “He doesn’t go anywhere by himself. And he told me, ‘You know, I could have shot them.’” 
 
 Seski's neighbor Enie Hahn claims the doctor threatened to kill his dogs after they ran onto his property. (Marcus Santos/New York Daily News) 
 
 Hahn, 67, said he tried to avoid talking with the socially awkward doctor. 
 
 “He’s rich and he owns all this,” Hahn said. “He’s real private. He buys people like us. You don’t want to cross him.” 
 
 Pictures on social media show Seski, who has a hunting license in Alaska, is an active hunter. 
 
 A 2012 post from Melorani Safaris’ Facebook page indicated Seski went on a 10-day hunt and “harvested some very nice animals,” including a nyala, a type of antelope, and a giraffe. 
 
 “Congratulations to Jan on a very succesfull (sic) hunt!!” the post read. 
 
 One photo shows the doctor posing with the body of a small antelope; a caption says it was killed two days after he shot it with an arrow. 
 
 Other captions described how his arrows penetrated organs and split bones. 
 
 “This Zimbabwe elephant is the sixth African elephant shot by Dr. Jan Seski,” Alaska Bowhunting Supply claims in a caption dated September 2014, below a picture of the doctor posing above the dead beast’s trunk and tusks. 
 
 Seski operates a gynecologic oncology practice in Pittsburgh, Pa. (Xodus Medical via Vimeo) 
 
 “The arrow was shot quartering into the elephant, penetrated a rib and one lung, lacerated the heart and liver, and was recovered in the gut,” the caption reads. “The elephant went a short distance and died. With results like this, no wonder Jan is a firm supporter of our Ultra-Magnum Arrow System.” 
 
 Despised doctors Seski and Palmer are not alone in their hunting ways. 
 
 Hunters have exported the head and hide of an estimated 665 wild lions from Africa each year, according to reports. 
 
 Seski is a suspect in an illegal lion hunt in April in Zimbabwe. (Melorani Safaris via Facebook) 
 
 This Zimbabwe elephant is the sixth African elephant shot by Dr. Jan Seski. For this hunt Jan used our custom-built... Posted by GrizzlyStik on Monday, September 15, 2014 
 
 In addition, hunters took down between 15 to 20 rhinos in Zimbabwe last year. 
 
 In Pittsburgh, Seski directs the Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery at the Allegheny General Hospital. 
 
 “We have no comment at this time on this matter related to Dr. Seski,” said hospital spokesman Dan Laurent, who noted the doctor is an “independent, private-practice physician who has attending privileges at several of our hospitals.” 
 
 In 2013, Seski’s practice pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of ordering unapproved cancer drugs and was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of California. 
 
 The practice admitted to ordering $973,795 worth of foreign versions of oncology drugs between Dec. 4, 2008, and May 25, 2011, that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the U.S. 
 
 Palmer has gone into hiding and is facing extradition to Zimbabwe to face charges of financing an illegal hunt. 
 
 The dentist has said he relied on his local guides to ensure his hunt was legal. 
 
 Online commenters were quick to vilify the latest trophy-hunting doctor. 
 
 “Another ‘person’ who is trained to preserve life, yet takes pleasure in paying to kill,” Elizabeth Stahlmann wrote on Seski’s office Facebook page. 
 
 “If you want to fund Dr. Seski’s illegal hunts and you approve of him giving his patients illegal drugs that are not FDA approved by all means go see him,” added Andrea Hansen. 
 
 Others were more direct, calling him “killer,” “scum” and “sociopath.” 
 
 Not everyone was upset by the doctor’s macabre hobby. 
 
 “We are very recent patients of his, he is a fantastic surgeon and amazing clinician,” said Nihar Ghate in an email to the Daily News. “I feel sorry for those so quick to judge such a great doctor.” 
 
 Seski also appears to have gone into hiding. 
 
 Messages left for the doctor were not returned Sunday. 
 
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 ON A MOBILE DEVICE? WATCH THE VIDEO HERE. ||||| HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe intends to seek the extradition of an American dentist who killed a lion that was lured out of a national park and shot with a bow and a gun, and the process has already begun, a Cabinet minister said Friday. 
 
 "Unfortunately it was too late to apprehend the foreign poacher as he had already absconded to his country of origin," Oppah Muchinguri, Zimbabwe's environment, water and climate minister, told a news conference. "We are appealing to the responsible authorities for his extradition to Zimbabwe so that he be made accountable." 
 
 On Tuesday, American hunter Walter James Palmer issued a statement saying he relied on his guides to ensure the hunt was legal. Two Zimbabweans — a professional hunter and a farm owner — have been arrested in the lion killing that garnered worldwide condemnation. 
 
 "There has been an outcry," Muchinguri said. "Almost 500,000 people are calling for his extradition and we need this support. We want him tried in Zimbabwe because he violated our laws. 
 
 "I have already consulted with the authorities within the police force who are responsible for arresting the criminal. We have certain processes we have to follow. Police should take the first step to approach the prosecutor general who will approach the Americans. The processes have already started." 
 
 The Cabinet minister said both Palmer and professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst violated the Parks and Wildlife Act, which controls the use of bow and arrow hunting. He said Palmer, who reportedly paid $50,000 to hunt the lion, also violated the act through financing an illegal hunt. The landowner violated the act because he "allowed a hunt to be conducted without a quota and necessary permit," Muchinguri said. 
 
 Muchinguri accused Palmer of "a well-orchestrated agenda which would tarnish the image of Zimbabwe and further strain the relationship between Zimbabwe and the USA." 
 
 Palmer is believed to have shot the lion with a bow on July 1 outside Hwange National Park, after it was lured onto private land with a carcass of an animal laid out on a car. Some 40 hours later, the wounded cat was tracked down and Palmer allegedly killed it with a gun. 
 
 Palmer, 55, is a dentist in the Minneapolis suburb of Bloomington. In a note to his patients, he wrote: "I understand and respect that not everyone shares the same views on hunting," adding that he would resume his dental practice "as soon as possible." ||||| The tourist who paid thousands of pounds to kill one of Zimbabwe’s most cherished lions has been identified as an American dentist. 
 
 Authorities in Zimbabwe say Walter Palmer, from Minneapolis, paid a $55,000 (£35,000) bribe to wildlife guides to allow him to shoot the lion, named Cecil, with a crossbow. 
 
 The 13-year-old animal was found beheaded and skinned near the Hwange National Park, where he was beloved by tourists and local residents alike. 
 
 Dr Palmer, who is described as an “experienced general and cosmetic dentist” on his practice’s website, is married with two children. 
 
 His professional biography describes his enjoyment of “outdoor activities”, adding: “Anything allowing him to stay active and observe and photograph wildlife is where you will find Dr Palmer when he is not in the office.” 
 
 The dentist’s Facebook page was being inundated with angry comments and threats today as he was identified as Cecil’s killer. 
 
 “Nothing in this world would give me greater pleasure than to see your head mounted on a wall, your carcass defiled, degraded and paraded as you did to Cecil and near countless other animals,” one person wrote. 
 
 The hunting of lions remains legal in Zimbabwe 
 
 Johnny Rodrigues, chairman for Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, identified Mr Palmer to The Independent and said anyone convicted of involvement in the illegal hunt could face up to 10 years in prison. 
 
 He added: “The head – his trophy – has been impounded and confiscated as evidence for the court in Victoria Falls”. 
 
 Mr Rodrigues had previously described Cecil as “one of the most beautiful animals to look at” and said he “never bothered anybody”. 
 
 Zimbabwe, like many African countries, is battling to curb illegal hunting and poaching threatening its endangered wildlife and conservationists fear Cecil’s death will have a knock-on effect. 
 
 The lion’s cubs could die as other male lions take his place in the pride and kill the lionesses’ offspring in to encourage them to mate. 
 
 Cecil lived in Hwange National Park, where he was well-known and loved by locals and visitors 
 
 Mr Palmer and his accomplices are believed to have lured Cecil out of the protection of the national park using bait and shot him with the bow – a silent weapon increasingly used by hunters trying to evade arrest. 
 
 But the arrow did not kill the lion immediately. Tracking data from his GPS collar linked to researchers at Oxford University showed he was followed for 40 hours before being shot dead with a rifle. 
 
 The Zimbabwe Professional Hunters and Guides Association confirmed in a Facebook post last week that the hunter in charge of the safari was one of its members and had been suspended. 
 
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 1/6 Cincinnati Zoo worker shots and kills Harambe, the 17-year-old gorilla Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla was shot and killed by a Cincinnati Zoo worker after a three-year-old boy climbed into a gorilla enclosure and was grabbed and dragged by Harambe. The incident was recorded on video and received broad international coverage and commentary, including controversy over the choice to kill Harambe. A number of primatologists and conservationists wrote later that the zoo had no other choice under the circumstances, and that it highlighted the danger of zoo animals in close proximity to humans and the need for better standards of care Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden 
 
 2/6 Walt Palmer (left), from Minnesota, who killed Cecil, the Zimbabwean lion (pictured here with another lion shot in Africa) Walter James Palmer has been named by Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force as the shooter of Cecil, a 13-year-old prized lion. He is now wanted by Zimbabwe officials on poaching charges. The lion was protected and the subject of a decade long study by the Wildlife Unit of Oxford University in the UK. He was outfitted with a GPS collar and was killed in Hwange National Park. The Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Authority and the Safari Operators Association said that two men were charged with poaching in connection to Mr Palmer 
 
 3/6 Kendall Jones hunting images Kendall Jones, a 19-year-old Texas Tech university student, has provoked worldwide fury after posting pictures of herself smiling next to animals she hunted, including a lion, rhinoceros, antelope, leopard, elephant, zebra and hippopotamus 
 
 4/6 Rebecca Francis hunting images Rebecca Francis, a huntress who has killed dozens of wild animals has been sent death wishes by furious social media users after a picture showing her lying down next to a dead giraffe was circulated. Rebecca Francis has a website and Facebook page dedicated to the animals she has killed in hunts across Africa and America. Francis, a prolific hunter who has also co-hosted the television show Eye of the Hunter, regularly posts pictures of herself posing next to dead bears, giraffes, buffaloes and zebras, among other animals. She uses a bow and arrow to kill her prey 
 
 5/6 The slaughter of Marius, an 18-month-old healthy giraffe in Copenhagen Zoo Copenhagen Zoo made the controversial decision to euthanise a healthy giraffe named Marius, which was later dissected and fed to lions as visitors watched. The slaughter sparked a furious backlash from social media users and zoo staff have received death threats by phone and email. Soon after the incident, Copenhagen Zoo faced an international outcry once again after four healthy lions were put down 
 
 6/6 Swiss Dählhölzli zoo kills healthy brown bear cub A Switzerland zoo faced heavy criticism from animal rights groups, after keepers put down a healthy brown bear cub to spare it from being bullied by its dominant male father. The 360 kg male bear Misha had already killed one of his 11-week old cubs in public and was bullying the second, staff at the zoo said, because he was jealous of the attention the cubs were receiving from their mother, Masha. Both adult brown bears had been donated to Bern’s Dählhölzli zoo in 2009. Campaigners condemned staff there for not separating the cubs, who are being referred to as Baby Bear Two and Baby Bear Three, and their mother from Misha after their birth in January Facebook 
 
 “ZPHGA reiterates it will not tolerate any illegal hunting or any unethical practices by any of its members and their staff,” a statement said. 
 
 A guide from local firm Bushman Safaris and the owner of the land where Cecil died have been arrested over the killing on 6 July. 
 
 Hunter Theo Bronchorst and landowner Honest Trymore Ndlovu were due to face illegal hunting charges in a court in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZPWM) said. 
 
 On its Facebook page, Bushman Safaris describes itself as a family business offering “top quality hunts with maximum results”, specialising in killing lepoards. 
 
 “Hunters do far more for conservation of our wildlife than anti-hunters whom probably almost 100% have never even seen or been around our wildlife,” a post said earlier this year.
– Not again: Another American has been accused of illegally hunting wildlife in Zimbabwe. Officials there say in a press release that Jan Casmir Sieski of Murrysville, Pa., joined a hunt in April near Hwange National Park, where an American dentist recently coaxed out and killed a famous lion. The New York Times finds no Jan Casmir Sieski on record, but spotted a Jan Casimir Seski running a gynecological oncologist practice in Pittsburgh. The AP knocked on his door in a wooded area near Pittsburgh, and called his practice, but hasn't heard back. Meanwhile, pictures on social media (now removed) show the 68-year-old posing with wildlife he apparently killed in Africa, including antelope and elephants. The AP says he's specifically accused of illegal lion-hunting. Seski's neighbors describe him as mostly a loner. One says he's "quirky" and carries a low-slung handgun "like a gunslinger," but adds that "I've never seen him done anything illegal or unsportsmanlike at all." Turns out Seski pleaded guilty to allowing $973,795 in unapproved, foreign oncology drugs into the US between 2008 and 2011, the Daily News reports. According to an official document, he was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. He's also seen as a trailblazer in bloodless surgery. Now Zimbabwe officials have arrested the farm owner who allegedly conducted the April hunt, and stopped all hunting of elephants, leopards, and lions outside Hwange National Park.