article_snippet.sent: Wild: Zana was discovered and trapped by a local merchant who hired a group of hunters to hunt Zana down in the region of Ochamchir - and Zana was eventually tamed by a nobleman on his estate in Tkhina .
article_snippet.sent: Trapped: A merchant found Zana in the Ochamchir region of western Georgia and after hunters caught Zana, hunters placed Zana in a ditch surrounded by sharp spikes .
article_snippet.sent: Zana was captured by a local merchant in the 1850s who hired a group of hunters to subdue and shackle Zana in the mountainous terrain.
article_snippet.sent: Sykes claims Zana was kept in a 'ditch surrounded by sharpened spikes' and sold from owner to owner until Zana came to serve nobleman Edgi Genaba as a servant.
article_snippet.sent: Zana was eventually 'tamed' by the nobleman who bought Professor Bryan Sykes of the University of Oxford as a servant and kept Professor Bryan Sykes of the University of Oxford on a servant estate in Tkhina in the Republic of Abkhazia.