The Weekend Australian Magazine
By Megan Lehmann
Because life is not a Disney movie, Donna Wilson sometimes gets whacked. Both arms are scarred by jagged claw marks; nips and scratches notch her sturdy torso. Early on, a tiger bite nearly killed her. But this day is about healing. Wilson is hurting on the inside, feeling slightly overwhelmed, and so she’s enlisted Kibulu, 140kg of tawny-furred ferocity and devotion, to help scare the blues away. She buries her face in the lion’s warm coat, angling her cheek to his sandpaper tongue and ruffling his neck scruff as he bumps his huge head against hers. “Good boy,” she coos, as he rests a paw the size of a T-bone steak on her forearm and sucks on her thumb, eyes blinking against the sun.
Full story: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/zambi-wildlife-retreat-sydney-its-donna-wilsons-baby/news-story/1da4fc10d6bb47d4a6f7280927aaf15b
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