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Lion from Assyrian Bas-relief
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Male Lion
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Lioness
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Lioness
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Lion
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Male lion
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Male lion sleeping
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After Rosa Bonheur had painted horses, cows, and other tame animals a great many times, she began to want to paint wild animals, such as tigers and bears. She could not go to the far-away countries where they live, so she bought a lion and lioness from a man who had been there. These she kept in a very strong cage of heavy iron bars. Here she came to watch them every day.
This is one of the pictures she painted of the lion. She called him “Nero,” and was so kind to him that after a while he became quite tame. The lioness was always wild, but good old Nero soon became so gentle that Rosa Bonheur could pet him and even go into his cage.
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Mountain Lion
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A domestic cat sitting before a picture of a male lion
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The Lion
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Lion Divider
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Mountain lion
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