Christian the Lion

Christian the Lion - the full story (in HQ) LINK

Christian the lion - Full ending. LINK

I posted Christian the lion before but found both videos so thought I would do a repost. This is a very touching story and brought tears to my eyes. Not tears of sadness but tears of joy.

Christian left the Kora Reserve in 1973. He made his new territory along the Tana river, but when the Wakamba herdsmen kept bringing their livestock to his hunting ground, he moved on. George Adamson 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.

"Lion Man" Gareth Patterson, author, environmentalist, and the person who continued George Adamson's lion rehabilitation work, revisited Kora in 1998. This is what he found...

http://www.fatheroflions.org/Kora_Rev..., LINK: Youtube