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March 12, 6:23 PM
In 1969, two friends who owned a furniture store in London decided to rescue/buy a small lion cub that was for sale at upscale Harrod's. (The upscale department store has since done away with its "exotic animals" department.)
"There, in a small cage, was a gorgeous little lion cub. We were shocked. We looked at each other and said something's got to be done about that," John Rendall told the Daily Mail in 2007.
He and Ace Berg bought the 35-pound cub and brought it home to live with Rendall in his tony Chelsea flat.
When Rendall and Berg visited Kenya a year later, they were told that Christian had successfully acclimated to his new environment and hadn't been spotted for a while. Even if they did see the lion, the pair was told, Christian would not recognize the men who raised him as a cub.
After hours of searching for him, the two men spotted Christian.
The astonishing reunion was documented on film and has become a YouTube sensation.
One of the videos has clicked over 10 million views!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=christian+the+lion&aq=0&oq=christian+the
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