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This lion family at Wasaga Beach appears to be content despite spending the winter months outdoors, though one of the cubs seems to be offering some o(...)
This lion family at Wasaga Beach appears to be content despite spending the winter months outdoors, though one of the cubs seems to be offering some o(...)

This lion family at Wasaga Beach appears to be content despite spending the winter months outdoors, though one of the cubs seems to be offering some o(...)

Date12/27/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: This lion family at Wasaga Beach appears to be content despite spending the winter months outdoors; though one of the cubs seems to be offering some objections. The animal's along with other big cats at the Ontario Zoological Park; are living under the kinds of climatic conditions experienced by their remote ancestors amid the ice fields that covered the earth in the pleistocene period 2;000;000 years ago.
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Zoo's pride: Employee Scott Deverill checks some of his charges, three lions which must be sold, along with about 300 other exotic animals and their home, the Wasaga Beach Zoo
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Professor Cas R. Van - Eysingin & Samtron tiger run Wasaga Beach
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