Christian the Lion, Who Thought He Was People is a great documentary about Christian, Boy, Katania (the Lions) and Anthony (Ace) Bourke (incorrectly named in this clip and incorrectly named by all if not most of the media outlets, as Ace Berg - I wish they would get their research right…), John Rendall, Terence Adamson & George Adamson (the People). A few weeks ago a great video (embedded in this article) was put up on YouTube which has touched millions of people. It has been shown on many major network shows and is an extremely uplifting video, the comment about Christian being “completely wild” did not seem to me to be 100% truthful, although, it is close enough and the message is wonderful.

You can view the full documentary in 10 parts, also on YouTube, which was put up by somebody called Irridescent.

It is a great story which seems to have inspired so many people positively, I thought I would highlight it here.  One final note, please visit the Born Free: Keep Wildlife in the Wild Blog to see how you can help the folks and the foundation which was responsible for all of the great efforts and work it took to reintroduce Christian to Africa.  Will Travers, CEO of the Born Free Foundation posts a note on the above video in the blog here.

Note from Will Travers regarding Christian’s story:

Born Free does not advocate the keeping of any wild animal as a ‘pet’. Christian’s story was from another era and was unique. Today we must do all we can to ‘keep wildlife in the wild’.John Rendall is based in the UK and still supports wildlife conservation both with Born Free and with the George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust. Ace now lives in Australia.

Christian lived the life of a free, successful lion, in and around the Kora area until he was seen no more. It was assumed by George Adamson that he had crossed over the Tana River and out of the Reserve.