Popular animals A lion arrives at the dead zoo Expectations for a new face Okayama November 6, 4:17
A new lion has joined the Ikeda Zoo in Okayama City, where popular animals have died one after another.
The new member is Charlie, a two and a half year old male lion.
On the 5th, it was delivered by truck from Shirotori Zoo in Higashikagawa City, Kagawa Prefecture to Ikeda Zoo in Kita Ward, Okayama City.
He was carried by a larger truck than expected and couldn't follow the path to the narrow lion's cage, but moved to a smaller truck and Charlie finally entered the cage three hours after his arrival.
At Ikeda Zoo, Kirin's "Momohana" left for heaven in February and Lion's "Mojiro" in July.
Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the business situation continues to be severe, with income dropping to less than half of the previous year, and the garden wants to prepare for the release of Charlie as the face of the new zoo after the middle of this month. It is said.
A mother in her thirties who visited with her three-year-old son from Okayama city said, "I saw a little. I was young, nice and cool. I want to come back with my child."
"I hope it will be a new face for the zoo," said Satoshi Tadamasa, deputy director of Ikeda Zoo.