Many concessions in Africa have been known to release captive lions into enclosed areas where they may be hunted with or without the client's approval and/or knowledge.

The fabulous Aesop, in his account of a grateful mouse that gnawed away a rope binding a captive lion, concluded: "Little friends may prove great friends."

These may have included captive lions, blue bull, hog deer, common peafowl, species of monkeys, rabbits, pheasants, waterfowls and parrots.

There is much confusion between Cape lions and other dark-coloured long-maned captive lions.

Mixed together, hybridized, most of today's captive lions have a 'soup' of alleles from many different lions.

Approximately 77% of the captive lions registered by the International Species Information System are of unknown origin.

The short ten-minute movie caused an enormous public protest in Denmark because it depicted the actual shooting of two captive lions.

Many of the captive lions can be traced back to a single collection kept by the Sultan of Morocco in his palace until the 1970s.

However, the purity of these captive lions can not be confirmed.

It was a subdued and thoughtful company which dragged the captive lion along the broad elephant path back to the village of Mbonga, the chief.