Your morning adorable: Lion cub at France's Lunaret Zoo
Tica, a month-old lion cub, is the youngest (and, we'd argue, cutest) resident of the Lunaret Zoo in Montpellier, France. Tica was born July 1 and is the first lion to be born at the zoo.
Tica is extra special because she's a descendant of an an extraordinarily rare subspecies, the Atlas lion (also called a Barbary lion). Atlas lions are extinct in the wild, although a small number live in zoos. See another photo of Tica after the jump!
-- Lindsay Barnett
Photos: Guillaume Horcajuelo / European Pressphoto Agency
Truly adorable, and very cool that it's a rare Atlas lion! I think the only Atlas lions in the USA are at Washington DC's National Zoo.
Allen Nyhuis, Coauthor: America's Best Zoos
Posted by: Americas Best Zoos author | August 06, 2009 at 08:39 PM
What a sweetheart! More Tikas! Thank you--
Posted by: Tom | August 12, 2009 at 11:22 PM