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...Lions may be a vanishing species in some African countries, but just 30 miles west of Paris Viscount Paul de La Panouse finds himself beset by too many of the beasts. La Panouse, 27, whose family coat of arms portrays-naturally-a lion, founded a wild-game park three years ago. On the spacious grounds around his family's Renaissance Château de Thoiry, he started out with a score of lions. Obviously French food and the sweeping savannas of the Ile-de-France region agreed with the animals. They proliferated so rapidly that the desperate viscount...
West African Shortage. Today the 20 lions have multiplied to 57 adults and 45 cubs, with 25 more cubs en route. Laments La Panouse: "I have given away a lot of my surplus lions to European zoos. But now these zoos are breeding their own lions. Of course I could sell lion cubs for $500 or $600 apiece to itinerant photographers who exploit and mistreat them, or to publicity seekers as pets, but I'm dead set against that sort of thing." Instead La Panouse started a send-them-back-alive project, concentrating on West Africa, which just happens...
...lions at Thoiry, meanwhile, have become so bored with the million visitors who come to see them each year, with tearing apart rubber tires supplied by the viscount or with hunting rabbits that the prides think of little more than their passions. "The lovemaking record is held by a lion who had 64 couplings in one day -with the same lioness," La Panouse claims. When an understandably skeptical visitor asked, "Who counted?" the viscount replied, "One of the keepers. They don't have much to do all day long." Even if they are French cats, that kind of performance...
...early inauguration of a political process within South Vietnam in which all significant political groups can participate and to allow that process rather than a diplomatic conference to have the lion's share in determining the future of the country...
Gebel-Williams puts more faith in tigers than elephants, which are, he says, more unpredictable..Lions? He sneers at them and does not use them. He says: "The lion is not the king of the jungle. He makes a big show but runs away. The tiger is the real king. When a tiger attacks, he means...