Christian the Lion

Years ago, I read A Lion Called Christian, a memoir about a 35-pound lion cub that two Australian men were raising in London in 1969. In a year’s time, when the lion hit 185 pounds and was too large to keep in their flat, they contacted George Adamson in Kenya who released it back into the wild. Interestingly, my sister just sent me a link to a video about the two men reuniting with the lion after he had been released and had been living free for five years: https://wdexchange.wdeptford.k12.nj.us/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://videos.komando.com/2008/06/26/christian-the-lion/. It’s really touching. Bill Travers who starred in Born Free directed a film called Christian the Lion in 1971, but I haven’t seen it yet. Ironically, details about it appear in The New York Times yesterday: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/9498/Christian-the-Lion/details