Hugging Lion Story

The decades-old footage of a full-grown lion
joyously embracing two young men like an affectionate house cat has
made myriad eyes misty since it recently landed on YouTube. What is it
about the old, grainy images that has attracted millions of clicks
around the globe?Is it simply that a lion, whimsically named Christian, remembered the two men who raised it and then released it into the wild?

Is
it nostalgia for a simpler time 39 years ago, when you could walk into
Harrods department store in London, stroll through the “exotic animals”
section, and buy a live lion cub?

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