Christian the Lion Reunited with His Two Owners After 4 Years in the Africa Wild

[Mitch]

This would of scared me if I were in their shoes.

[P]

I see what you are saying, but, it is quite moving really  -  cats are very intellegent and social animals.  You can tell the lion is REALLY pleased to see them - I love the way it nuzzels into them like a domestic does when it loves arround its owners.   Thanks for that!

[Arkcon]

I was a fan of the twisted TV show on MTV, The Wildboyz .  Basically, it's the guys from the show and movie Jackass, traveling the world and performing stupidly dangerous stunts with (at least semi-)wild animals.  Once they were taunting a lion, basically sitting in a hammock with raw meat on strings attached, and they fell out.  The lion did a curious half-leap sideways, with a mini-rearing on it's hind legs, and I said, "Where've I seen that before, oh, that's right, that's how my cat pounced."  It was never more obvious how close Steve-O came to being wild animal chow than that striking parallel between Great Cat and kitty cat.

[Bakegaku]

Hmmm... Isn't the happy ending supposed to be when after being raised by humans in a domestic environment, a lion is released into the wild?  This is quite unusual...

Another note of irony is that Anton LaVey had a pet lion... This is strange considering the lion in this video is named Christian.