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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

This is absolutely terrible!!

A 24-year-old girl, Dianna Hanson, was interning at Project Survival's Cat Haven sanctuary in Dunlap, California.

Sadly, while inside a male lion's enclosure one night, she was attacked!

The Sheriff's Department released a statement:

"Upon arrival, deputies observed the victim, who appeared to be severely injured, inside the African lion enclosure with an adult male African lion. Another employee had made several attempts to distract the lion away from the victim and into another enclosure prior to the deputy's arrival, but all attempts failed. Deputies shot and killed the lion to provide medical attention to the victim. The victim died at the scene."

The sanctuary is now working with the Sheriff's Department to find out exactly what happened.

It's not known if Dianna was supposed to be in the cage or not, and the circumstances of the mauling aren't fully known.

This is just so awful.

Her friends and family are in our hearts and thoughts.

Check out the video (above) to learn a little bit more about the whole awful incident.

Tags: california, dead, died, kill, killed, lion, mauled, sad, sanctuary