On Monday, 12 lions, including nine cubs aged between three and five months, an 18-year-old male, and two females aged 10 and 12, arrived in Villena in the Spanish province of Alicante after a 20-hour road trip from a circus in western France.
According to AAP Primadomus, there was a high risk that the cubs would be sold to cover the maintenance costs of other animals in the circus.
When the lions arrived in Villena, they were covered in filth. Azaga explains that the animals had probably been kept in trailers at the circus for at least the last month.
The animals were initially very nervous upon arrival, especially the cubs, but once reunited with their mothers, they calmed down, says Pablo Delgado, director of AAP Primadomus Spain and head of big cats.
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