She adopted a baby leopard. The two-month-old cub – all fuzzy ears and blue eyes – was adorable, and the lioness spent weeks nursing, feeding and caring for him until he died.

But keeping wildlife as pets is not a "hobby easy to afford," he added - his lion and lioness each eat 44 pounds of meat a day. The nine-months-old cubs each consume around 20 pounds of meat daily ...

The lioness moves freely in the field, confident that Kantibhai’s family (below) won’t disturb her and cubs For the past two months, a lioness and her two cubs have become a major draw ...

Kigali, a lioness at Leipzig Zoo in Germany, has killed and eaten her two newborn cubs just days after giving birth to the horror of her keepers.

Trilobites The Leopard Cub With the Lioness Mom Scientists documented a rare and very cute interspecies adoption in a national park in India.

Asali, an African lion cub born in November 2005 at the Denver Zoo, had to be raised by humans and then an adoptive lioness mother after her own mother stopped nursing her.

African wildlife expert Rob the Ranger captures a lioness protecting her cubs from approaching hyenas in Maasai Mara.

Lions and leopards normally don't get along, but one wild lioness — recently spotted nursing a leopard cub in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area — apparently didn't get that memo.

Kigali, a lioness at Leipzig Zoo in Germany, has killed and eaten her two newborn cubs just days after giving birth to the horror of her keepers.