40 LLOYD'S NAMZ#BRAL HISTORY, 
SEXES OF THE CUBS. 
Males ee t: x Ms e's) 
Females ce a ac or aun dr SSO 
Unknown _s... ee aa Ame va a I 
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Percentage of males to females 52°4 to 47°6, or a majority 
of 4°8 males out of every 100. 
When captured sufficiently young, the Lion is one of the 
most easily-tamed of all the Ae“de—differing very markedly in 
this respect from its near ally the Tiger—and some of the speci- 
mens exhibited in menageries have shown a most extraordinary 
degree of docility. Jardine writes that a Lion exhibited in 
the early part of the century in Wombell’s travelling menagerie, 
known as Nero, ‘‘ was of a remarkably mild disposition, and 
allowed his keepers every liberty; strangers were frequently 
introduced into the den, and when in Edinburgh, this was a 
nightly exhibition, the visitors riding and sitting on his back. 
Nero, during the wuile, preserved a look of magnanimous com- 
posure, and on the entrance or exit of a new visitor, would 
merely look slowly round. 
“But the most docile Lion which has occurred to our own 
observation, was one in a travelling menagerie at Amster- 
dam, where, it may be remarked, all the animals showed a 
remarkable degree of tameness and familharity. The Lion 
alluded to, after being pulled about and made to show his 
teeth, &c., was required to exhibit ; two young men in fancy 
dresses entered the spacious cage, and in the meantime, the 
Lion, apparently perfectly aware of what he had to do, walked 
composedly rou:d. He was now made to jump over a rope 
held at different heights; next through a hoop and a barrel, 
and again through the same covered with paper. All this he 
did freely, compressing himself to go through the narrow space, 
