Female Lion Remembers Old Friends

Break.com ^

[Maceman]

These guys raise an injured lion from birth and then release her into the wild. After one year they attempt to reunite with the lion and its amazing how happy the lion is to see her old friends.

No sound, but awwww.

Feel good video of the week.

[2banana]

1. For a second, I thought the lion was going to kill her.

2. There is a second lion?

[mgstarr]

Born Free ping.

[lovecraft]

For a second there, I could've sworn that was Robert Plant and Jimmy Page with a lion.....

dude....like wow.

[Hacklehead]

I wonder if just off camera, there is a guy with a 375 H&H rifle.

[Joe 6-pack]

"For a second there, I could've sworn that was Robert Plant and Jimmy Page with a lion...."

Something instinctively told me it wasn't Siegfried and Roy.

[taxcontrol]

Reminds me of the old adage ... when dancing with elephants, you don't stop dancing until the elephant decides to stop dancing.

But yes, very awwwww.

[ZULU]

Well, most predators are pretty intelligent animals.
Guess that only story about Androcles might have been true after all.

[libstripper]

The lion seems to have learned how to act like a friendly
Great Dane or Lab.

[Dysart]

Watch later

[Bigg Red]

That was really neat!
But what’s with the second lion, I wonder.

[goodnesswins]

Amazing.....maybe since they are not caged...they remained friendly?

[Dysart]

Yep, that was quite a reunion. I wonder if the lion sensed familiarity through smell or sight first? Anyway, kinda reminds of my return home every evening. I’m convinced my dogs think I’ve been gone for months every MTWTHF.

[Mean Daddy]

This posting reminded me of the following story I had read a while and back and always enjoyed:

AMAZING STORY

In 1986, Mikele Mebembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Mikele approached it very carefully.

He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant’s foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Mikele worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments.

Mikele stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.

Mikele never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Mikele was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his young son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over near where Mikele and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mikele, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down.

The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.

Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mikele couldn’t help wondering if this was the same elephant. Mikele disregarded the “NO ENTRY” signs, he summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mikele’s legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.

Probably wasn’t the same elephant....

[bert]

Aesop told the tale milleniums ago. The story was of the lion with a thorn in it’s foot.

[DAC22]

I wonder if it is all that it seems, I just can’t see that second lion coming up to humans all palsy walsy just because her mate did.

[advertising guy]

I concure.....this ain’t all it seems.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

bert, you've got a good memory! Mean Daddy, you tell a good story!

Here's the Aesop's fable of the lyon / & of the pastour or herdman.

[sweetiepiezer]

Great video.