Can you tame a lion

They need to have their own house, and it requires wide space because they are highly active animals. Lions need annual care, and it will cost you a lot of money. It does not include the monetary fines if your lion injured someone or if somebody sued you for millions.

Get ready for your million dollars to be burned for maintaining a pet lion. Lions will also require lots of your time. Because even though they are known for being responsible, they need your time for them to be tamed.

You need to spend at least three hours a day to keep your lions happy and to know you very well. Remember, lions can be tamed if you put time and effort to train them. Lions should also be trained during their young years.

It is nearly impossible to train a big and mature lion. However, even though they can be tamed, you still need to act cautiously around them. If you are deciding to buy a lion, then you may be asking for their price.

Rare cubs will cost you a hundred thousand dollars. But it is not yet finished because even though you have the money to buy a lion, you need to keep in mind that they need maintenance. You need to set up their homes or their ecosystem. It includes their house and the fee required by your local government for owning a lion.

Lastly, their annual care. The prices of their annual care vary on their size and their age. Usually, grown-up lions will require lots of money because they need to eat more meat than lion cubs. However, the prices I gave you does not include the price you need to pay if emergencies are happening, or if someone sued you for millions because your lion hurt them. Prepare millions of dollars if you want to have a pet lion. Where to buy lions? Lions can be purchased at an exotic animal auction, or you can buy them from private breeders at your location.

However, before you buy a lion, check first if your local government permits people to own a pet lion to avoid charges and monetary fines. Like I have said above, lions can be dangerous because of their sharp teeth and sharp claws. They can be dangerous to humans and other animals if not domesticated. Lions can be tamed and domesticated, but it requires lots of time and patience. Wild lions that have not been trained will usually see humans and other animals as prey.

So never approach a wild lion. Cubs are not that dangerous. However, never still approach lion cubs because their mother might be around, and their mother might attack you as well. Examples of violations include unsafe handling of animals resulting in their escape and subsequent recapture , inadequate veterinary care and even animal abuse [source: Born Free ].

Millions of people have viewed the YouTube video sensation, "Christian the Lion," which shows the touching reunion between a lion named Christian and his former owners. Christian's owners had raised him from a cub until he was about a year old, at which time a conservationist helped them to introduce Christian to the wild.

When they paid Christian a visit at the animal reserve, cameras were rolling to capture the lion's joy at seeing his former friends. Christian remembered them and even nuzzled their faces with affection like a regular housecat. Some people might think this is proof that humans can, indeed, tame wild animals.

Is it? For every Christian the Lion, there's a Siegfried and Roy. Known worldwide for the love and pampering they showered on their feline charges, Siegfried and Roy's successful Vegas tiger act ran for more than a decade.

However, it ended in tragedy after one of the tigers attacked Roy Horn during a performance. To this day, no one is exactly sure what prompted their prize tiger Montecore to become aggressive. The cat attacked Horn so fiercely that he suffered partial paralysis and a crushed windpipe. After his recovery, Horn insisted that the tiger was only trying to protect him from something -- perhaps a stroke suffered onstage -- and was dragging him offstage to safety. Others theorized an audience member's beehive hairdo distracted the tiger, or that a spectator provoked it somehow [source: AP ].

Federal investigators never determined why the tiger turned violent. Whatever the cause, the incident illustrates that wild animals can be aggressive and unpredictable, no matter how lovable or docile they may seem. Siegfried and Roy raised Montecore from a cub and had worked with him for five years before the attack. Let's face it. A circus or animal act isn't natural habitat for a lion or tiger.

When was the last time you saw a lion on the African plains leap through a flaming hoop? Most animal advocacy groups state that animal attacks occur because of animal rage or frustration.

Wild animals each have different needs related to diet, socialization, environment, living conditions and climate. Yet most exotic animals are all kept under the same conditions. So it should be no surprise that an animal one day acts unpredictably.

Since , captive wild cats have attacked more than people, many fatally [source: Dawn ]. Most organizations that keep exotic animals claim to use humane training techniques, but some activist groups claim that, behind closed doors, animals may be poked, prodded or hit [source: PETA ]. All reports are available to the public via their Web site. Jack Hanna, director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio, once stressed that you can train a wild animal, but you can never tame a wild animal.

And famed lion tamer Gunther Gebel-Williams used to say that a wild animal is like a loaded gun -- it can go off at any time [source: CNN ]. Perhaps it's the loaded gun factor that has attracted audiences to lion taming acts for so many years. If the beast weren't wild, would we be on the edge of our seats? Most famous lion tamers bristle at that term. Both Clyde Beatty and Gunther Gebel-Williams always stressed that they were lion trainers, not lion tamers. Beatty once stated, "If they are tamed, there is no act" [source: Time ].

Sign up for our Newsletter! Mobile Newsletter banner close. Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots. Mobile Newsletter chat avatar. Tigers are typically wary of humans and usually show no preference for human meat.

Although humans are relatively easy prey, they are not a desired source of food. The whip gets all of the attention, but it's mostly for show. In reality, it's the chair that does the important work.

When a lion tamer holds a chair in front of the lion's face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time. Clyde Beatty taming a lion with a chair. Lions are most affectionate to their like-sexed companions. Females spend their lives in their mothers' pride or with their sisters in a new pride; males may only spend a few years in a given pride but remain with their coalition partners throughout their lives. Lions are most active at night and live in a variety of habitats but prefer grassland, savanna, dense scrub, and open woodland.

Historically, they ranged across much of Europe, Asia, and Africa, but now they are found mainly in parts of Africa south of the Sahara. Its weight was immense, forcing me into a twisted, crouching position.

I felt the lion's hot breath on the back of my head as its jaws closed around my scalp, dragging my head down close to the ground. I could feel teeth now — the male was chewing the back of my head, like a dog toying with a bone. Can you tame a lion? Category: pets cats. What are lions afraid of? Should you look a lion in the eyes? Do lions fear humans? Are Lions loyal?

While lions and tigers have the capacity to be trained, the Cheetah which has been in captivity for over 5, years has been considered the easiest exotic cat to tame. This is mostly because they produce one litter each year, and studies have proven that they do not breed well in captivity, which would make the process of selective breeding almost impossible. Some of them include the Bengal cat which resulted from crossing between domestic shorthairs and non-domestic Asian Leopard cats.

Chausie is the result of crossing domestic Abyssinians with wild jungle cats of Asia, and one of the wildest-looking kitties is the Savannah , created by crossing the African Serval with a domestic cat.

Our feline companions no matter how civil they may seem are part of a large family that consists of 36 wild cat species. They have the widest range of body sizes of all living carnivore families. I think as cat owners we feel a certain underrepresentation when the topic of domestication comes up.

Thankfully, John W. We all know how the Egyptians were obsessed with cats, but cats have been useful members of human communities at least 10, years ago. Of course, no matter how domesticated an animal is they are still animals and they can be aggressive or defensive, but that has to do with early socialization, which is a period in their kittenhood where they learn to fear or not fear contact with humans and other animals. I suppose one major difference between our cats and lions is that somewhere along the way cats decided to become our friends, something lions never did, but we managed to find a way to deny their choice to be free.

I think most of us would agree that we need to care for the wild lions, the big cats, and all the exotic creatures and let them live their lives in their natural habitat. As far as I know, we already have our own feline beauties at home, that thousands of years ago decided that we were cool enough to be their friends. In theory, it might be possible to domesticate lions, but lion taming has given us a small glimpse into what that would look like, and would you really want these beautiful creatures domesticated?

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