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Mara the Lioness (1965–1974) was an animal actor who appeared as Elsa in the 1966 movie Born Free, based on the true story of Elsa the Lioness raised by George and Joy Adamson. Mara was born in the wild in 1965, a premature cub abandoned by her mother during a violent rain storm.
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The film was produced by Open Road Films Ltd. and Columbia Pictures.
Elsa: The Lioness that Changed the World (2011); Shown in the US under the title Elsa's Legacy: The Born Free Story. Also to celebrate the 50 year anniversary of the book a further documentary was produced which was a collaboration between BBC in the UK for their series Natural World and PBS for their series Nature .
The zoo had to get the protective lion mom to let them take the cubs to get viewed by the vet. In the exam, zoo workers were able to draw blood from the cubs and microchip them so they can keep ...
The Lions Are Free (1967) is the true story of what happened to the lions Boy, Girl, Ugas, Mara, Henrietta and Little Elsa, and other lions which starred in Born Free. George Adamson rehabilitated many of these lions after Born Free was completed. It is a documentary-style film about George Adamson and his lions.
Freya's relocation to the Drakenstein Lion Park is only a partial success story. Freya, a 6-month-old lion cub rescued from the wildlife trade in Lebanon, poked a curious nose out of her transport ...
Born Free is a book by Joy Adamson. Released in 1960 by Pantheon Books , it describes Adamson's experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa . It was translated into several languages, and made into an Academy Award -winning 1966 film of the same name .
Four lion cubs born at breeding facilities in Ukraine and orphaned during the war have found a home in Minnesota thanks to the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Wildcat Sanctuary.