baby lion

My story of the baby lion! (Highlights of the Safari: Samburu National Park)

We drove around a corner and bam! there was a baby lion sitting like Kale staring straight at us. I felt like getting out and petting him because he looked very fuzzy and huggable. His eyes were black and he had fuzzy golden hair and short ears and he was very interested in us like we were in him. He sat there staring at us and I felt like I wasn’t in a van because we were so close to him—only a couple feet away! I named him “my fuzzy little friend.” Soon he got up to play with his brother and I noticed that we had something in common—a brother! So we watched them play for a long time, frolicking through the bushes and climbing some small trees, getting ready to go hunting one day. It was getting dark so we had to leave but we hoped to see them the next day!

~ Paul Picado-Curtis