RANGERS at Knowsley Safari Park on Merseyside had to perform "open mouth surgery" on Whit, a five-year-old lioness, after realising she had a golf ball stuck on one of her fangs.
"We had to sedate her but it was still a white knuckle job," said manager David Ross.
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