How about a Lion hug?

[Snapshot]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a4dWTKo5u7M

 

Valentin Gruener has formed a special relationship with this lioness who lives in Botswana, Africa. From the Huffington Post:

Jonathan Hawkins, a teacher living in Seoul, South Korea, captured this video during a visit to the Modisa Wildlife Project in Botswana, according to Mikkel Legarth, co-founder of the project.

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One of the co-founders of the preserve, Valentin Gruener, developed a close bond with some of the lions, including this lioness who he helped raise that gives Gruener a giant hug when she’s released from her enclosure.

It’s clear to see — great friendships like this one require hugs this big.

 

[Edge]

awesome. Imagine all the free drinks I could get if I took that lioness along on a pub crawl.

[Snapshot]

awesome. Imagine all the free drinks I could get if I took that lioness along on a pub crawl.

I would rather take it to the park where the women walk their dogs........

 

The dogs would be like " that the biggest dang cat I've ever seen"

[CouesWhitetail]

That's awesome!

[DesertBull]

reminds me of that Timothy Treadwell dude that thought grizzly bears were his friends.

 

The last words he heard were......pass the salt.

[Havasuhunter]

Had a house cat that was that happy to see me after I'd been gone a week or so. About 2 hours later she'd go back to biting and scratching me. A lion would scare the crap out of me no matter how much trust we'd developed.

[Snapshot]

The Grizzly man took things a little too far. They say one out of a hundred grizzlies have a real bad attitude. I guess he found that particular one.