I personally feel sorry for the lion. I think it's cruel to lock these animals up. Pacing back and forth is a clear sign of distress.

Looks to me like that was the most fun that Lion has had for years :-\\...

It's like an inmate making friends with an insect in his cell.

The lion is bored, they need to do more to intellectually stimulate him.

lion watching squirrel scale the wall: yo....HEY COME BACK...teach me how you do that?

He never gets into killing mode, guess it's just boredom.

Solitary confinement for life. The squirrel is a life other than his own. He just wants an animal friend.

Lions were born to live in prides, not alone. That's really so sad, he seems to feel so alone.

Poor lion....even for a zoo lion, it doesn't appear this magnificent (though thin) lion gets any enrichment or interaction. And the habitat display is miniscule.

Gotta be frustrating being so majestic and not being able to do what you want to do.

This lion does not look happy. His ribs are showing and he's pacing.

I went to a private zoo in northern Michigan where the enclosure was five times this size for their lions . So these bigger zoos have no excuses.

Damn. What an awful life for this lion.

He is looking for a friend, even from a squirrel.

Heartbroken for that lion. He's obviously miserable. So sad. Shame on the people who are responsible. 😠😧

Lion: "you look tasty but I got half a raw cow coming to me after the show". Also Lion: "we can still play if you want to...🤤

Sad/angered are the only thoughts I have in mind. A perfect machine created to hunt and dominate, just there looking at a dam squirrel.

Pacing back and forth in his cell. That's what I do when I get locked up too.

This is a zoo in the USA. He looks sick and unkempt. Shame! Unfortunately it shows you how bored the lion is. I didn't see a second lion for company.

Zoos are the animal's Alcatraz

Thousands of years of predator instincts

Lion: I used to hunt zebra... What have I become? Squirrel: 🐿️

What the visitors don’t know is that the lion regularly climbs up the wall and takes a walk in the zoo park area at night.

Lions are meant to travel for miles...this is devastating to see. To be in such a confined spaces can make anyone go mad- even a lion.

For the lion to even bother with a squirrel, makes me wonder if he is being fed properly.

he so wanted to kill something

Look at him no meat just skin and bones shut that zoo down!!

Donald I agree 110% with you. That poor cat is so stressed out being locked up when they are used to roaming for miles and miles. 😢😢😢😢😢😢

Everybody Gansta until big kitty takes a lesson from squirrel and does a parkour movement on that back wall.

That lion could use some lionesses, and some balls and other toys to play with. His enclosure looked very barren. Imagine how bored he is, and then that squirrel came in, and then that be his only excitement he's seen all day or for many days. Also, the title is wrong. That squirrel and lion never touched each other, they didn't fight. The lion tried to hunt it, but gave up when the squirrel went back up the same way it came.

I'm glad the lion can access the lower levels. Amazing to see his natural instinct come out, getting into stalking mode, creeping towards the squirrel.

"Don't worry, little buddy. I'm not going to eat you." "Umm.... I think you're lion."

The squirrel hides his acorns in the safest place in the world, the lions' den. No one would go there.

‘Hey buddy, how do you get out of here?’ Sad to see a magnificent animal imprisoned for our entertainment.

так мало места для такой красивой кошки. жалко жалко.

Totally unfair fight. That squirrel has experienced taking on caged nuts before.

The zoo's got to be better built they got to have big open spaces for these guys it's terrible though when a squirrel makes a lion look that goes for all the zoo animals.

Squirrel: You gotta be quicker than that!

Que pena ☹️estos animales no deben estar encerrados para sonrisas de humanos, deben estar libres 🦁!!!!

The lion thinking what a lucky thing the squirrel is to be able to scamper out of that cement monstrosity while ignorant people gawp and chuckle.Yes just as nature intended.Liberate.

I'm pretty sure that a rat or two has come into the lions enclosure and he's probably caught them.

abolish that zoo, he was clearly pacing in the beginning. that is how you know the animal is distressed.

Benny: “Hi Sammy!” Samson: “Hi Benny, hey have you seen Ryan?” Benny: “Yeah he was heading towards the green boxes.” Samson: “HE WHAT?!” *Either you get the reference or you don’t.*

this is no place for a wild animal- a sad reflection of the magnificent life as a hunter in the wild he was born to be -

at least he got to hunt and realize his instincts....if only for a short time. I hate zoo's ...rehab's are another thing....

I don't believe that zoos should be allowed to exist except for a single National Zoo and then it should be large enough for the animals to not live in stress.

Title: lion pacing around doing its own thing, squirrel on wall doing its own thing.

A beast that can walk twenty five miles a day without breaking a sweat in a confined space is travesty. This is somewhat reasonable but the fact remains he isn’t free.

2:30 Squirrel: *"I have the high ground, Lion! Don't try it!"* Lion: *"You underestimate my powers!"*

I was hoping that the lion got a workout chasing the squirrel and then got a meal!

He looks at it as if he is looking at a buffalo before hunting🤣🤣🤣

Poor lion gets no exercise or stimulation of any sort, that squirrel was the most excitement it's ever had 👎🏻

that the lion walks back and forth is a sign of understimulation and stress.. understand being locked in such a prison for life. nothing to do and a lot of people looking at you all day.

I come from a farm in Zimbabwe and on holiday we went to the zoo in South Africa. I cried the whole time we didnt stay long. It was too heartbreaking. The elephant had chains attatched to her legs and with her rocking back and forth they were raw. Never again. 😫👍🇿🇦

I hope that's not his normal enclosure, he really needs other animals to interact with

Incredible climbing skills by the squirrel. That lion belongs in the wild but at the very least, they should put other lions in there to give him company

What a terrible love for this magnificent creature.

How this beast coming slowly slowly cleverly.😮

">..He's king of the jungle. HUGE mane out to here, and he's lying down under a tree in the middle of Africa. He's SO big . He's So hot he doesn't want to move ....."🤔😁

squirrel: you lion! lion: you doubt my veracity?

How pitiful we humans are to bring a beautiful animal into a concrete

Lions like oh hello little snack stay right there I’ll come down

That's shocking to keep a lion like that!

You know that squirrel up on that wall going here Kitty Kitty Kitty meow!

A great moment for videography, well done.

The look in that squirrels eyes!!!!!

Lion: It's my hunt of the day. It got away.

Classic humans! 😆Already betting on whether the squirrel makes it out alive.

Oh man. What a teaser. Lion thought it was snack time.

That squirrel must be a pet of Chuck Norris!

What a cruel cage.

Squirrel got to high ground . Tactical af

I feel like zoos gotta do more live prey for their carnivores every once in a while, least give them various small mammals that populate fast like rats, mice and rabbits.

Somebody GIVE him that MC chicken

Poor lion is bored out of his mind just waiting for a squirrel or a crazy drunk guy to come into his enclosure.

The pacing back and forth is a form of PTSD on this poor animal. :(

I want that too. Lion thought to himself

This video needed the mission impossible theme tune

Terrible for the lion to be alone. Lions are social animals.

At least he got a little respite from the banal boredom ..... the arrogance of the “ sorry buddy” comments were uncalled for aswell.

I found pictures of the enclosure of the lions, and it seem pretty decent on contrary of mini zoo I saw in the past. Plus we don't see ribs pocking, it's a sign that he's fed regulary. Some wildlife documentary shows way more skinny lions.

A Cat, Is A Cat.......,No Matter The Size And, Chasing Squirrels....., Is Something That They All Do!

Lion: I spent my precious time, shit.

They do that all the time to my cat. No fear. They'll walk right in front of her like it's nothing then casually go up a tree of she gets too close.

I personally think he was looking for a friend.

That poor animal , it is so sad and unfair to see the king of beasts treated this way !!

Skinny lion, lonely lion.

This is a game for the lion and squirrel, they know each other. It's so obvious to me.

Bullwinkle must have told Rocky to get out of there.

The poor lion probably wishes that he was back in his homeland hunting real food.

That lion tried to corner that squirrel and the plan failed.

We had a Doberman that would chase squirrels. He'd go into "slow mo" and almost walk within 2' before the squirrel would climb up the tree. It'd take in an hour or so to go 5'. I wish I would have flimed it. Capone was one of my best dogs! He caught a couple of ground hogs doing the same thing!

Most of the people here have absolutely no clue about zoos. Zoos have animals that have been born and raised in captivity. They can't survive in the wild. Zoos also often times take in animals that have been hurt or held by humans in horrible conditions to rehabilitate. Most of them can't be returned into the wild because they haven't been thought how to survive, they've spent all their lives in human possession. To give them as full life as they can get ,they get a chance for having their own families inside zoo who again can't be released because they haven't been thought how to survive in nature. Now there are some species that can be reintroduced back into the wild but lions are definitely not one of them. Speaking of reintroduction, zoos reintroduce a lot of species back into the wild, also helping with conservation of endangered ones. A lot of caretakers love animals , that's how they get this profession in the first place. They try to stimulate their lives as much as possible and as much resources allow. They are fully taken care by medical staff and fully fed with no worries about diseases, food shortages or getting hurt by predators/ defensive pret/ own kind mating, territory. Zoos also peak children's interest of animals and love for them. I went to zoos all my childhood and it only increased my interest in them. You have completely skewed, delusional and ignorant view of what nature is really like. If i stripped you naked and threw you right now in the middle of Forrest, nowhere near any civilization, without any preparation ,you would realize what it's like for an animal, who hasn't been raised in the wild it is like. And that would surely change your views of what real nature is like, not your imaginative fairy tail. Release back into the wild is not in a lot of animals best interests.

Hopefully he got a chance to taste squirrel at least once. Great video 👍👍

That lion is going insane.

Lion: starts singing, “you got a friend in me….” Squirrel: *leaps away* Lion: “Oh…”

How bored does a lion have to be to take notice of a squirrel? In the wild, rodents might as well be eye floaters to them.

it’s all about being king of the mountain.

He is just looking for a friend :(

Bruh this is exactly how my cat acts when he finds a bug in the house