Three White Lion Cubs Looking for a Home
- Posted by Bill Belew in Animals
Jul 16,2008
“I want my mommy!”
“Doesn’t anybody love us?”
“We’re hungry!”
“I need burping!”
“Well, at least we have each other.”
“Alright guys! Let’s stick together.”
I guess I am naive enough to think that only humans can be so heartless as to turn away their own children. Not so. A white lion in Schloss-Holte Stukenbrock of Germany rejected her three cubs. What’s up with that? Let me have the little critters. Cute as can be, and whoever thought to put them on a black sheet knew what they were doing when these pix.
So, I wonder aloud here again about the whole zoo thing. Does having these little fellows in a zoo and having humans all around and such have anything to do with the momma lion turning them away? I love animals. Let’s put them back in their natural habitat. And if people want to study them…okay what’s to study. Leave them alone.
What do you think?
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6 Responses to “Three White Lion Cubs Looking for a Home”
Out of curiosity, I did some searching on Wikipedia and found this:
“In addition to starvation, cubs also face many other dangers, such as predation by jackals, hyenas, leopards, martial eagles and snakes. Even buffaloes, should they catch the scent of lion cubs, often stampede towards the thicket or den where they are being kept, doing their best to trample the cubs to death whilst warding off the lioness. Furthermore, when one or more new males oust the previous male(s) associated with a pride, the conqueror(s) often kill any existing young cubs, perhaps because females do not become fertile and receptive until their cubs mature or die. All in all, as many as 80 percent of the cubs will die before the age of two.”
Unfortunately, if these little guys were born in the wild they wouldn’t have very good chances of survival even if their mom didn’t turn them away (and it would be zero if she did).
Given how many animals are close to extinction and how valuable being able to see them up close can be to children (the future decision makers) and adults, I think zoos serve a valuable environmental preservation purpose and they can be non-terrible options for animals (certainly better options than being left in the wild to be poached and possibly exterminated).
I can sympathize with your point of view, but until such time as people can actually leave animals alone and not destroy their natural habitats I think zoos will continue to be an important tool and for helping people appreciate why we need to slow down our abuse of the environment. Furthermore, leaving animals in the wild would mean that those 3 little guys almost certainly would have perished by now.
agreed.
this are really cute pets.. i would like to know if i can keep one .. i would it take me to have one of them
These kids are very sweet ,I wanted to know that can i adopt these kids with every possible leagel formalities.I LOVE YOU BABBIES
Maybe contact Martin Lacey Jr- the great lion trainer? He’s already got ton’s of lions and spoils them rotten….he’s even got a white lion like these cuties called Tonga… might be worth a try. At least he’d know what to do with them, and they’d survive.
It might be because they’re white. White/albino animals[that are not naturally white] have a hard chance of surviving in the wild. They lack protection from the sun and camouflage. The mother may have abandoned them for being genetically inferior. It definitely didn’t have anything to do with the zoo.
Another possible reason – was this her first litter ? Most wild animals have a difficult time with first litters and may abandon them because the mothers themselves are immature.
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