Lion as A Man's Best Friend?

A human interaction relationship between animals such as dogs, cats, hamsters, rabbits are quite common, but have you ever heard of an interaction between human and lion? Of course you've heard it also, especially when you're visiting the zoo, where you can see not only lions but other animals in the wild been captivated for education or entertainment purposes. Well, maybe a relationship between human and lion is not that bad, because you've seen zookeepers maintain their relationship with this giant cat quite well.

Sadly, lions in the wild can be in danger because of us, humans, yes you heard me right. This is quite obvious because lions are carnivores, which they feed on meat not vegetables and humans are consists of meat not greens, thus people are afraid of being close to lions because they will be attacking and people's live will be in danger. This is also one of the cause why lions in a few areas of the world are an endangered species because people kept on killing them to protect their village or territory, meanwhile the lions are just hungry because sometimes their home, the forest or maybe savanna, are destroyed by humans and they have no more food resource so they went to the village to search for food, poor lions.

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But, the good news is, some conservatorist wanted to protect the lions from getting killed by the villagers. In the internet there are many conservatorists wanted to protect lions, such as Valentin Gruener, a Germanese conservatorist which apparently 'adopted' a cub which he named, Sigra. Gruener rescued Sigra because Sigra was unwanted by her kinds and Gruener's heart was moved to take care of Sigra. This doesn't mean that Sigra is being captivated like other animals in the zoo, Sigra is able to hunt food for herself. Their relationship and bonding are so precious like cats and dogs with their owners so does Sigra and Gruener. Gruener also maintains a captivated kinda cage in South Africa, where around 10-15 lions are protected to keep themselves from the villages but still providing them the place to hunt for their food.

In conclusion, I wanted to say that no matter how dangerous an animal can be, we mustn't kill the entire species, except when we don't have a choice, but let's not let that happened in the near future. We need to cherish every animals in the earth as they are an important part to keep our ecosystem balanced. Interacting with wild animals such as lions can be quite dangerous but with a professional help I assure you that the wild animals will let you touch them sooner or later, just don't be afraid. Maybe you can also adopt them but let them stay in their actual habitat and interact with them since a baby, it is effective the same when you're adopting a puppy because they're still young and easier to teach and to build relationship rather when they are already an adult.

Source: https://images.app.goo.gl/MVwJJCC3jKNRu25M8 

https://wilderness-society.org/even-lions-love-humans/