His first brush with death came as a young lion when he stepped into a wire snare set by poachers. Though wildlife vets managed to save his leg that time, his luck ran out a year later when he was ...

(KTLA) – First responders rescued a young mountain lion from a tree after he wandered ... to be stuck about 20 feet high, with his front legs clinging onto branches and his bottom legs kicking ...

So it was a combination of the stage team and the actual mechanism, which is almost like a robotic puppet thing: human body comes in, lion movement comes out. The front legs are kind of the front ...