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Lioness and her cub
(Reuters)
Updated: 2004-10-12 10:15

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A lioness in the Aalborg Zoo carries one of her newly born cubs in her mouth in northern Jutland, Denmark, October 11 2004. Today was the first time the cubs and their mother were let out in their cage for the public to admire the little family. The lioness gave birth to her cubs at the age of one and a half years.The usual age for the first birth of a lioness in captivity is three or three and a half years. [Reuters]

A lioness in the Aalborg Zoo carries one of her newly born cubs in her mouth in northern Jutland, Denmark, October 11, 2004. Today was the first time the cubs and their mother were let out in their cage for the public to admire the little family. The lioness gave birth to her cubs at the age of one and a half years. The usual age for the first birth of a lioness in captivity is three or three and a half years. [Reuters]

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