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

Comments

[Americas Best Zoos author]

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

[Tom]

What a sweetheart! More Tikas! Thank you--