The heart-warming hug between a lion and its childhood owners was recorded and is now an Internet sensation throughout the world.
A home video which recorded the moment when a lion was reunited with its childhood owners has become a real Internet sensation.
The footage has been viewed over 6 million times on YuoTube and other sites, Sky News reports.
It shows a lion called Christian, who was purchased for 250 guineas from an exotic animal department at Harrods in 1969.
Australian John Rendall and Anthony Bourke took the young lion cub with them and raised it as a pet in their Chelsea apartment.
The urban lion has become popular in their London furniture shop, but he soon got bigger and bigger, from weighing 15.88 kilos to 83.91 kilos a year later.
Christian was relocated to the Kenyan bush, famous for the `Born Free` film. After a year of living in the wilderness, he was tracked down by his former caretakers.
This 38-year-old video shows a hear-warming moment: a lion that is shivering until the two men shout his name.
The big cat hugged and licked them in a family way.
The reuniting encounter lasted until the next morning when the lion returned into the wild. Watch the attached video.
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