Warum werden Löwen in Zoos gefangen gehalten?

Lions are the most easy to hold big cats. They live socially in the group and can hardly be rested by things outside the group. They are neither stressed nor lonely in the group, they can employ themselves. Their way of life in nature consists largely of eating and sleeping, because they dominate over their territory and hardly have enemies. They also do not wander over long distances, but feed on the animals that cross their comparatively small area. Their internally social way of life is also the basis for a functioning interaction with the animal nurses. All of this makes her uncomplicated zoo animals. In stark contrast to most other cat types.

Lions are audience lovers like zebras and hippopotamus. For economic reasons, they are hardly degradable for zoos.

Various zoos no longer have African lions because they are not endangered as species. Instead, Asian lions are held, which are strongly threatened in nature. They are increased in a globally coordinated conservation breeding programme. For Asian lions, our climate is also much better suited than for African lions. Their original distribution area had reached far north. For the average zoo visitor, lion is a lion, which keeps the function as an audience magnet. That’s what lions, zoos and zoo visitors have.