Anyone heard of Christian the Lion?

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Anyone heard of Christian the Lion?

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So I was checking out that top 10 site that someone recommended on here a few days ago, and came across the top 10 youtube videos.
One of them was this one, about Christian the Lion and the people who raised him and returned him successfully back into the wild.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNTdWbV ... r_embedded
I gotta say that video touched me :D It's really happy! So i researched it to find out more about the story and there was 2 documentaries made about it. I watched one of them and it's a very VERY moving story.
Anyone else ever read about it?
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Didn't look but is this that lion who went back into the wild and then like 10 years later the people that raised him went to see him and were surprised that he remembered them instead of trying to eat them (or was just trying to lull them into a false sense of security before he ate them later)
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Haha, I think it's the same one. Though it was actually 1 year later that they returned to see him (which is the one in the youtube video). Then they returned again a year later and he still remembered them, though no footage was shot of that reunion. During the 2nd reunion he was a lot more mature and had a pride/family of his own, after one night with them he returned to the wild and never came back.
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There was an older movie about Elsa the lion; Born Free.
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Daniel got sealed in that lions den
those felines even scare grown men
Daniel prayed to his christian god
and the lord's power bulked up his bod

Yeah Daniel he fucked up those lions
those big cats ended up cryin'

Yeah bitch there's no denyin'
believe in the lord, a guarantee you're buyin'

yeah Daniel he fucked up those lions
those big cats ended up cryin'

Takin on cats with my .44
The lords work is a god damn war
you better pray for more
cuz when they put you in the den and seal the door
those lions'll eat your ass to the core

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This was a big story here in Australia back in the 70's (before I was born so I only heard about it a couple of years ago) because although the guys were living in London with the lion, they were in fact from Australia.
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that video makes me cry every time i see it.
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aaron wrote:that video makes me cry every time i see it.
Then you might also enjoy Lambert, the Sheepish Lion:

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hadn't herd that but I did hear this story on NPR yesterday....
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/

man takes baby chimp from anesthetized mother and raises it...chimp likes hard alcohol and the man buys the chimp porn. wow.

it's a sad ending...sorry.

there's another story on NPR about a dog that get's addicted to sucking cain toads. that one was kinda funny. the dog came out of his addiction ok.
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