Sultana the orphan antelope rules park keeper’s roost

ANIMALS don’t always make good lodgers – especially when they make a mess on the carpet. That’s what one safari park keeper is finding after taking home a needy baby antelope.

Emma Gatcliffe, a head keeper at Knowsley Safari Park on Merseyside, is hand rearing Sultana, a sitatunga antelope, in the spare room of her Manchester home after the fawn was abandoned by her mother.

Emma brings Sultana home every night in a dog carrier in her car. After a feed every four hours, Sultana likes playing with Emma’s pet poodle Macy, or reclining in front of the TV with her hooves up.