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Contract it from someone else. >> you can't contract it from someone else or through drinking water. it's mostly transmitted through mist. you're breathing in the mist from like say an air conditioning unit or cooling towers within a building. >> thank you for the reporting. i hope they get it under control soon. coming up next still no sign of the minnesota dentist who shot cecil the lion on what officials call an illegal hunt. what is next for cecil's cubs and the other lions call that part home? details from johannesburg ahead. force

More in jep ar ti than it would have been. obviously at some point, jericho's going to come across new males. but a group of males of two or three or more decide to come in and want to take cecil's pride, jericho's a single male now. he doesn't have a brother with him helping him fight. so unfortunately, he has very little chance of fighting off any other coalition. if jericho doesn't have any real pressure around his pride over the next year and a half meaning any single males coming or two younger males that aren't quite as big and experienced as him, jericho might be able to fight them off ...

Cecil's cubs? why would that happen? >> typically a younger age, when a young male gets kicked out of a pride they go on what they call a nomadic phase. and on that phase cecil and jericho met up and formed what we call a coalition. the reason they do that is they can hunt better and protect themselves better. and when it comes the right time and the right size they're able to take over a pride together. so that's why jericho -- jericho formed an alliance with cecil. they're not quite sure whose cubs are whose. in general, a lot of male lions will protect all the cubs in a pride. >> so knowing...

Law by luring the lion out of the park for killing him. meanwhile, wildlife authorities in zimbabwe are talking about false reports on jericho that a lion in cecil's pride was killed. jericho is indeed still alive. this is a photograph of jericho taken this morning by an oxford researcher tracking him using a gps tag. cnn's david mckenzie is in johannesburg this evening. >> reporter: any reports that jericho lion was killed by a hunter turned out to be false. in fact the group that put out that information has since apologized. and the oxford university research group that tracks these lions s...

Outright. it is with a bow that dr. palmer shot cecil last month causing this global outcry. he said he did nothing illegal. but officials are trying to extradite him, face charges from the u.s. to zimbabwe. that might be a tall order according to experts. the guide and hunter that he hired to kill cecil, though face charges this week in zimbabwe and could spend ten years in jail if found guilty. david mckenzie, cnn, johannesburg. >> david, thank you for that. cecil's killing has sparked international outcry. huge petitions signed by more than 200,000 people to have dr. palmer extradited. ther...