Footage has shown the efforts to successfully capture two lynx illegally released in the Highlands.
The alarm was raised at about 16:20 on Wednesday when they were spotted in the Drumguish area, near Kingussie.
Experts from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) charity worked with police to humanely trap the cats overnight.
They are now being cared for in quarantine facilities at Highland Wildlife Park before being transferred to Edinburgh Zoo.
The charity has condemned the illegal release as “highly irresponsible” and said it was likely the lynx would have died in the wild.
It said the pair appear to be in good health and have been named ‘The Killiehuntly Two’.
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