The rather shy lion of Zion

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Poor Ziv, it sounds almost like he has a nagging wife. Hope he acclimates himself to the crowds, but he had bvtter roar up against that female lion or she will keep on trying to intimidate him.

The rather shy lion of Zion

Ziv, the new male Asiatic lion at Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo, is having a hard time adjusting to the crowds, noisy zoo vehicles, and an intimidating older female
BY REBECCA MCKINSEY May 20, 2014, 11:13 am

It wasn’t Ziv the lion’s day.

He lounged in the shade under a tree at the back of the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo’s lion enclosure, languidly ignoring the ducks and peacocks who scampered close to chatter mockingly at him.

A different male ruled this territory a year earlier. Lider, who was put down at age 16 last September because of his deteriorating health, would have chased the birds away, said Dennis Smith, head of the zoo’s carnivore department. In fact, the feathered tormenters knew not even to approach him.


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