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Snoop Lion (yes, previously known as Snoop Dogg) is home!!

He was recently spotted touching down at LAX, where someone was waiting to pick him up and presumably take him back to his Lion’s den.

The man was looking plush as can be, wearing a furry jacket that few could pull off. Snoop, as you can tell, pulls it off perfectly.

Snoop didn’t seem to mind the cameras as he casually strolled to his awaiting pimped-out ride Pontiac Grand Prix.

Gotta love a dude who uses normal transportation!

Besides, Snoop Lion doesn’t need to impress ANYone. Except for people who prefer Doggs over Lions.

Ch-ch-check it out! (below)

Tags: airport, dogg, grand prix, lax, lion, pontiac, snoop

If you're in the southwestern part of Ohio, and you see a large monkey running around - don't worry, you're not tripping. In all likelihood the monkey is totally real.

Because in fact a large monkey was reported to have escaped from a train carrying circus animals from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.

But a monkey wasn't the only one to escape from the circus - apparently a huge lion escaped, as well.

Tags: amazing, circus, escape, lion, monkey, southwestern ohio

Back on April 7th, four Asiatic Lion cubs were born at the Emmen Zoo in Holland.

The little guys are so crazy cute it hurts!

They were born to proud parents Zulu, the papa, and Tia, the mama.

The night house den, a behind the scenes enclosure, was cleared of all other lions, so Tia and her babies could bond during the critical first few weeks of life.

With a live webcam back there, the keepers have been able to monitor the cubs as they nurse, bond and grow bigger and bigger each day.

Tia is apparently an excellent mother.

So glad that all the little cubs are happy and healthy!

The world can always use a few more lions.

[Image via Emmen Zoo.]

Tags: adorbz, babies, baby, bonding, cubs, cute, lion, lion cubs, lioness, nursing, zoo

Wow!

We knew lions were awesome, but dang!

8 years ago a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped by 7 men in Ethiopia. Apparently the idea was to marry her off to one of them. Although that begs the question - why did they need seven men to do that?

Anyways, the girl was rescued from her kidnappers, by some unlikely heroes — LIONS!!!

Here are all of the crazy deets:

Tags: adopt, amazing, girl, inspiration, kidnapped, lion, lions, little, roar, scary

UC Santa Cruz scientists have done the seemingly impossible.

They have taught one of their resident sea lions how to keep the beat to the music.

This is a breakthrough in research because before it was thought that only humans and parrots could keep a beat!

But that is no longer the case, obviously!

Soon we'll be rocking to the new group - the Beastie Sea Lions! Ha!

Check out the video and watch it (above) !!!

Tags: beat, keep the beat, lion, music, santa cruz, sea, sea lion, uc

Talk about walking into the lions den!

Alexander Pylyshenko, who owns a small zoo in Ukraine, plans to spend an entire year with two lions at his zoo.

Alexander hopes to raise awareness for lions all over the world, and to also raise $45,000 for the construction of a rehab center for lions and other big cats.

Since a year is such a long time - Alexander will split up his time with the lions. Half the time he will stay in their cage, and the rest of the time he will stay in his country house where the lions will join him!!!

This isn't the first time Alexander has done something like this.

Check out a video (above) from the first time Alexander spent an extended period of time with the kings of the jungle.

But that was only for 35 days - a lot less than a year!

Alexander isn't sure when his experiment will begin, but it should happen sometime in 2013.

Good luck, sir!!!

Tags: alexander pylyshenko, lion, lions, live, living, money, raise, year, zoo

This is so awfullll!

We previously mentioned that Dianna Hanson, 24, was killed by a lion at Project Survival's Cat Haven sanctuary in Dunlap, California.

Now we know more about what actually happened to her.

The authorities believe that the lion opened its cage with its paw and attacked the woman as she was cleaning its holding area.

The corner who examined her and spoke with investigators said:

"The lion had been fed, the young woman was cleaning the large enclosure, and the lion was in the small cage. The gate of the cage was partially open, which allowed the lion called Cous Cous to lift it up with his paw. He ran at the young lady."

The coroner then said that the lion broke her neck, probably with just one swipe of its paw.

She would've died instantly.

Though this whole situation is awful, at least she was already gone when the lion began tossing her body around.

All bites and scratches were inflicted after she was already dead.

Still, its so so sad that she was killed.

We hope the sanctuary changes its policies so that nothing like this can ever happen again.

Tags: attack, coroner, dead, died, intern, lion, sad, sanctuary