Lions are just beautiful animals aren't they. So sad when they show Christian's parents pacing back and forth behind bars in a zoo. I don't like going to zoo's for that very reason. These animals belong out in the wild.
It checks out at snopes.com, boobaa.
I saw a special on a lioness that adopted an orphaned gazelle. She had lost her own cub and still had the strong motherly instinct. It was sad though because the gazelle became very weak and dehydrated after not having it's mother's milk... eventually a rogue male lion found it and killed it... but they said shortly after that the same lioness kept adopting gazelle calf's. Multiple calf's and each one died due to dehydration. Very strange that this lioness kept trying to adopt gazelle calf's.