David drowsily opens his eyes while napping in the grass of Camo Habitat at the ADI Wildlife Sanctuary as the sun goes down – funnily enough this is the time when many of his neighboring lions are the most active! Rescued from a tiny circus cage in Peru, which he had never left and was scared to do so when we rescued him, David now roams almost 4 acres and seems very different from that nervous lion we saved ten years ago.

You might notice some of the fresh green grass shooting away after we have had torrential rain following the weeks of drought – the heavens seemed to weep for days for Ruben.