![]() ![]() George and his wife Joy then adopted the lioness’s four-day-old cubs. George only later realised why the lioness had acted so aggressively towards him. ![]() Her story is told in several books by the Adamsons, as well as the 1966 motion picture Born Free.Įlsa and her sisters were orphaned on 1 February 1956 after George Adamson was forced to kill their mother when she charged him, in defence of her three cubs. Though her two sisters eventually went to the Netherlands' Rotterdam Zoo, Elsa was trained by the Adamsons to survive on her own, and was eventually released into the wild. 28 January 1956 – 24 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters "Big One" and "Lustica" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few days old. ![]()
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