感動，小獅子真帥～

今年六月時就透過podcast在Best of YouTube上看到了這短片，當時就覺得很感動。

今天再次看到了比較詳細的文字的介紹，覺得真是了不起的獅子啊～原來這已經是將近四十年前的事情啦～

CHRISTIAN’S STORY

In 1969 a young Australian, John Rendall and his friend Ace Bourke, bought a small lion cub from Harrods pet department, which was then legal. ‘Christian’ was kept in the basement of a furniture shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea, the heart of the swinging sixties. Loved by all, the affectionate cub ate in a local restaurant, played in a nearby graveyard, but was growing fast…

A chance encounter with Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna led to a new life for Christian. He came to live in an enclosure and slept in a caravan at their Surrey home. Then in 1971 he was flown to Kenya, his ancestral home, and returned to the wild by lion-man George Adamson. Almost a year later in 1972, John and Ace returned to Kora in Kenya and it is their reunion with Christian at this time that is shown in the clip.

It was an emotional reunion: “He ran towards us, threw himself onto us, knocked us over and hugged us, with his paws on our shoulders.”

John Rendall


Christian left the Kora Reserve in 1973. George Adamson believed that he made his new territory along the Tana river, but when the Wakamba herdsmen brought their livestock to his hunting ground, he moved on. George said in his autobiography, "I used to count the days on which we hadn't seen Christian, but when they reached 97, I gave up recording them in my diary." Because a lion can live from 12 to 15 years in the wild, Adamson believed that Christian ended his days in the Meru National Reserve only a few miles up river.

CHRISTIAN CLIP

Below is the last 6 minutes of the film Christian the Lion, with original soundtrack and commentary by Virginia McKenna.

有興趣的人請自己google一下這隻名叫Christian的帥氣公獅子吧，或者再看看更多相片。

如果你受到了感動，請上拍攝此紀錄片的基金會給他們一些鼓勵吧！（要是買了DVD，記得借我看啊！或是付每年30歐元的會費還有一隻小獅子玩偶呢！）

再附上一篇Tutztutz.com看到的Puppy vs. Lion Cub

裡面註解下的好：
This puppy may be able to take on this kitty now, but in two years, this cat will dominate!