Female lion Carol, who arrived four months ago from a circus from Espírito Santo together with his mother, Sarita, and the male Chimarrão, has given birth to two baby lions last Tuesday. Unfortunately only one of them survived. Carol is young, it was her first pregnancy and probably she slept over one of them.

When the lions were confiscated by Ibama, we had – due to the urgency – to improvise an enclosure that was not finished yet to host them. Because of that, we were not able to separate the male from the females. Chimarrão had not been submitted to a vasectomy at that time and we believe that in the few days they stayed together, before the operation, he must have mated with Carol.