Sunday, August 05, 2007

Christian the lion reunited

Anthony Bourke and John Rendall, found Christian for sale in Harrods in 1969.

As he grew, Christian began to need bigger facilities than Tony and John could provide. Thanks to a chance meeting with Bill Travers (who had starred in the movie Born Free), they hit upon the idea of sending Christian to Kenya to live as a wild lion.



The first step when Christian arrived at George's compound, was to introduce him to Boy, a lion who had been in the movie Born Free and who George had already sent "back" to the wild, without losing his relationship with him.

Christian and Boy eventually became best friends, and within a year Christian was living as a wild lion.

When that year had passed, Tony and John came to Kenya to see Christian.

There's more information and photos here.

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