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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on Aug 11, 2014 22:43:12 GMT 9.5
Ben's pride: Meet the suburban Sydney 'lion keeper' who's raising a pride of cubs in his LOUNGE ROOM
Nathan, Mal and their sister who will be named via an online competition, are six-week-old African lions living in Ben Britton's lounge room
They were abandoned by their mother after birth before being taken on by the director of Wild Animal Encounters
Lion numbers across the world have dropped from half a million to only 26,000 in the last 100 years
Mr Britton hopes the cubs will encourage Australians to support the conservation of their species
By LILLIAN RADULOVA FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA PUBLISHED: 11:27 AEST, 11 August 2014 | UPDATED: 18:49 AEST, 11 August 2014At six weeks of age, little Nathan, Mal and their sister who is yet to be named, resemble three kittens purring and napping for the majority of the day. But by the end of the year, Ben Britton, 37, expects his current African lion roommates to weigh up to 40 kilograms each and no longer fit on his couch. As the director of Wild Animal Encounters in Western Sydney, Mr Britton has taken on the role of the lions' mother from the day they were born, after their natural mother rejected them. 'They're only just starting to find their feet,' Mr Britton told Daily Mail Australia. Click Here to Read More:
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