Authorities confirmed that a lion named Jericho is indeed alive, following the recent death of his beloved brother Cecil last week.

On Sunday, Brent Stapelkamp, who is tracking Jericho's movements in the Hwange National Park with a satellite collar, posted a message on Facebook saying the big cat is alive. A picture of Jericho, said to have been taken Sunday, was also posted on the website of Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit.

"Jericho is in fact alive and well and has adopted Cecil's cubs," said the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, according to USA Today. "We were given three separate confirmed reports last night that is was Jericho. We could not reach the research station in Hwange to verify if Jericho was indeed alive after they reported that they were receiving signal from his collar."

For the past week, there has been an outpouring of global outrage over Cecil's killing by Dr. Walter Palmer, an American dentist who went on a trophy hunt in Africa.

Palmer reportedly paid around $50,000 to hunt the black-maned African lion with local tour guides, who used bait to lure Cecil out of the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. Once the lion was outside the park, Palmer shot him with an arrow, then tracked Cecil for 40 hours before fatally shooting the wild cat.

Apparently, Palmer had no idea that the lion he killed was a star attraction at the Hwange National Park. Scientists at the University of Oxford had also used a collar to track Cecil since 2008, reports the New York Times.

The Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said it was illegal to kill Cecil, while the government of Zimbabwe has called for the extradition of the Minnesota dentist, reports PBS News Hour. Meanwhile, PETA has released a statement calling for Palmer to be put to death, and U.S. senators have proposed an amendment to the Endangered Species Act.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, trophy-hunting tourists legally kill about 600 lions each year, despite the fact that there are only 30,000 lions left in Africa.