The detention of lions
Some individuals or private companies are raising lions, their detention is subject to many countries with specific permissions. Often these animals are kept under conditions not allowing their well-being among others because of lack of espace In France, regular input actions were conducted by the administration although some associations are the little virulentes. India banned the possession of the same lion from 1998. Also many animals escape, resulting in battered often result in the slaughter of the animal.

In Africa, the couple George and Joy Adamson is best known for the high and tamed lioness Elsa, Elsa has been the source of several books and documentaries.


Taxonomy

The lion, like the leopard, tiger, jaguar and snow leopard or ounce, is part of the Panthera genus of the family Felidae.