Need Of Love

The cub in the initial stage of life only felt short of love and care which he deserved from his parents. He was too young to be left to himself. His health became a major concern for zookeepers, but even bigger an issue was why did his parents leave him like that.

Pride Politics

It was often observed that some lionesses often left the pride to care for their cubs but this lioness left her cub to be a part of the pride. One can only assume that as majorly two lionesses in a pride give birth to cubs at the same time and in order to get the lead, a female might decide to leave the cub and join the pride which otherwise is done after the cub is about 6-8 weeks old.

Scared

The zookeepers were extremely worried about the cubs falling health. The baby needed nourishment. Life had just begun for him and those days were nothing but sheer struggle. At this stage, he couldn’t be fed meat either. Moreover, getting close to the cub got scary.

Fear Of Attack

At this early age, a cub might not attack but as it was their natural instinct the zookeepers weren’t sure how to reach out to this cub. They couldn’t either see the cub in hunger and being abandoned by his mother and nor could they easily go close to him. What will they do now?

Weird Idea

In order to ensure that this cub makes it to life, and is able to survive, the zookeepers came up with many ideas. They thought bottle-feeding might help, but the cub would never even touch it. He needed mother’s feed. Then they came up with a strange idea.

Might Work

The zookeepers understood that only a mother lioness could help this baby cub. But which lioness would feed any other cub than her own? The zookeepers kept their hopes high about another lioness feeding this young one.