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This lion defied the laws of nature—and became an icon | L.A.‘s Lion King || Wild Lives Ep. 1

LION. KING. How a 19 year old lion fathered 35 cubs… in a year and a half. This is the wild story of a lion named Frasier—Frasier the Sensuous Lion—who became a science wonder the world over in 1972. After all, how many lions have movies and songs made about them because of never before…

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LION. KING. How a 19 year old lion fathered 35 cubs… in a year and a half. This is the wild story of a lion named Frasier—Frasier the Sensuous Lion—who became a science wonder the world over in 1972. After all, how many lions have movies and songs made about them because of never before seen animal behavior?

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In their own words. Well, approximately their own words—they are wild animals after all.

CREDITS
Video by: Tom McNamara
Animation: Beth Wexler
Narrator: Dave Pettitt
Group Digital Director: Amy Schellenbaum
Editor-in-Chief: Corinne Iozzio

Media
8mm home video of Lion Country Safari (Scott Stodard), “Frasier the Lovable Lion” (Frasier Productions, Inc., Sandler Films, Inc., Four Star International, Inc.), “Frasier (The Sensuous Lion)” (Sarah Vaughn and The Jimmy Rowles Quintet; 1974 Mainstream Records), Getty, “Here Comes the Circus” (1942), “I Love A Parade” (Looney Tunes, 1932), LIFE Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Archives, Prelinger Archive, Pixabay, “Who’s Who In The Zoo” (Federal Writers Project, 1937)

Music
APM, Vik Sharma

Thank You
Mary Ellen Amodeo, AZA Reproductive Management Center, Katie Belloff, Jess Boddy, Erin Chapman, Digitize NY, Sonia Epstein, Meg Lampert, Jason Lederman, Lion Center at the University of Minnesota, Lion Country Safari (Palm Beach County, Florida), Steve Oftelie, Dr. Craig Packer, Dr. David Powell, Pat, Donna and Todd Quinn, Saint Louis Zoo, Russ Smith, Scott Stodard, Species360, Zoological Association Of America

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49 Comments

  1. Coolguy 111163

    August 27, 2020 at 1:50 pm

    get it on Fraiser

  2. Stylo

    August 27, 2020 at 1:50 pm

    get it on Fraiser

  3. Stylo_games

    August 27, 2020 at 1:50 pm

    get it on Fraiser

  4. @747streams

    August 27, 2020 at 9:50 am

    get it on Fraiser

  5. Erin Chapman

    August 27, 2020 at 4:48 pm

    The world’s most interesting lion.

  6. Rip Tide

    August 27, 2020 at 6:15 pm

    How’d the cubs do ?

  7. @riptide8103

    August 27, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    How’d the cubs do ?

  8. Ant Lab

    August 28, 2020 at 12:26 am

    I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS VIDEO!

  9. @AntLab

    August 27, 2020 at 8:26 pm

    I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS VIDEO!

  10. Zaheer Nooruddin

    August 28, 2020 at 1:27 am

    Superbly made story. Long live Frasier!

  11. Nelson Swanberg

    August 28, 2020 at 3:36 am

    Frazier was reincarnated as a foam frog.

  12. @nswanberg

    August 27, 2020 at 11:36 pm

    Frazier was reincarnated as a foam frog.

  13. Ken Creten

    August 28, 2020 at 7:40 am

    I did it.

  14. Crash Like This

    August 28, 2020 at 7:40 am

    I did it.

  15. @laxr5rs

    August 28, 2020 at 3:40 am

    I did it.

  16. Michael Eppelheimer

    August 28, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    “When you are hot, and hittin’ the spot, the action will amaze you.”

  17. @MichaelEppelheimer

    August 28, 2020 at 10:46 am

    “When you are hot, and hittin’ the spot, the action will amaze you.”

  18. gary heiden

    August 29, 2020 at 7:02 am

    he went out on top.

  19. @garyheiden3120

    August 29, 2020 at 3:02 am

    he went out on top.

  20. DOO-WHOP

    August 29, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    You learn something new everyday good video

  21. @doo-whop1474

    August 29, 2020 at 8:43 am

    You learn something new everyday good video

  22. Harry Johnson

    August 29, 2020 at 4:24 pm

    Frasier had all this stored inside him what a true KING.🦁

  23. Robert Mudry

    August 30, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    Hey I got paid $15 as an extra in that “atrocious film. ” They filmed it at the college I attended. I’m in the opening shot walking across the screen with my young GF, Judy.

  24. C.M. Knox

    August 30, 2020 at 11:44 pm

    Takes me back to when I was working for Doc Schuster & Lion Country Safari ! May Frasier never be forgotten !

  25. @Doxieist

    August 30, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    Takes me back to when I was working for Doc Schuster & Lion Country Safari ! May Frasier never be forgotten !

  26. fukatrum ume

    August 31, 2020 at 5:39 am

    OMG, it’s weirdly informative & entertaining.

  27. @fukatrumume9750

    August 31, 2020 at 1:39 am

    OMG, it’s weirdly informative & entertaining.

  28. Linda Doggett

    September 1, 2020 at 11:32 pm

    Seems that the only female cub the video named was Linda. I agree that was a fine choice.

  29. @TheLdoggett

    September 1, 2020 at 7:32 pm

    Seems that the only female cub the video named was Linda. I agree that was a fine choice.

  30. Nice Videos

    September 11, 2020 at 8:25 am

  31. Shahin Zangenehpour

    September 15, 2020 at 4:00 pm

    At the end, he loved himself to death… 🤣😂😅

    • JGW 54

      July 7, 2022 at 4:11 am

      He died with his boots on.

  32. @shahinzangenehpour3104

    September 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm

    At the end, he loved himself to death… 🤣😂😅

    • @jgw5491

      July 7, 2022 at 12:11 am

      He died with his boots on.

  33. j coop

    October 18, 2021 at 9:43 am

    What pervert cult idiots.

  34. @jcoop3660

    October 18, 2021 at 5:43 am

    What pervert cult idiots.

  35. Fifthrider

    November 2, 2021 at 8:28 pm

    I’m a huge fan of Frasier and did a lot of research on my own. I found a couple of older articles that said the public cause of his death was pneumonia but in reality it was a decision by the staff to put him down. He was so well know that there would have been public outcry if that ever got out, so “pneumonia” it was.

    Right after that dentist shot & killed Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe in 2015 there were “treasure hunters” looking for Frasier’s lost grave. It turns out everyone had lost track of his grave. As the employees of Lion Country Safari moved onto other jobs, so left the people who knew where he was buried. His grave was known by a cross but that marker burned down after multiple threats from a San Diego preacher who objected to a cross being used on a lion’s grave. It’s unknown if it was arson, only that the cross burned down about that same time.

    As the waterslide park overtook the LCS land, then gave way to new condo complexes, everyone just forgot where he was buried. I made a point to go out there in 2015 and look for it. It ended up taking about one year of searching satellite maps and buying up people’s vacation photos on eBay until I finally found one slide that was an absolute smoking gun. It was the moment of his burial, being loaded into the ground by pallbearers. I could tell exactly where he was by the location of the tree and fences.

    Returning to the land I paced it out and found that I was in the right spot ( metal detector thought so too ) but that there was nothing discernable about the land to reveal this was it. Meanwhile over on the wrong mountain, there was a plaque telling all the treasure hunters this was where his body laid.

    I handed the co-ordinates off to the Irvine Company and they seemed grateful. At least they now had specific co-ordinates and as long as the fence-hopping treasure hunters were always travelling to the wrong spot, the secret would probably remain.

  36. @fifthrider

    November 2, 2021 at 4:28 pm

    I’m a huge fan of Frasier and did a lot of research on my own. I found a couple of older articles that said the public cause of his death was pneumonia but in reality it was a decision by the staff to put him down. He was so well know that there would have been public outcry if that ever got out, so “pneumonia” it was.

    Right after that dentist shot & killed Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe in 2015 there were “treasure hunters” looking for Frasier’s lost grave. It turns out everyone had lost track of his grave. As the employees of Lion Country Safari moved onto other jobs, so left the people who knew where he was buried. His grave was known by a cross but that marker burned down after multiple threats from a San Diego preacher who objected to a cross being used on a lion’s grave. It’s unknown if it was arson, only that the cross burned down about that same time.

    As the waterslide park overtook the LCS land, then gave way to new condo complexes, everyone just forgot where he was buried. I made a point to go out there in 2015 and look for it. It ended up taking about one year of searching satellite maps and buying up people’s vacation photos on eBay until I finally found one slide that was an absolute smoking gun. It was the moment of his burial, being loaded into the ground by pallbearers. I could tell exactly where he was by the location of the tree and fences.

    Returning to the land I paced it out and found that I was in the right spot ( metal detector thought so too ) but that there was nothing discernable about the land to reveal this was it. Meanwhile over on the wrong mountain, there was a plaque telling all the treasure hunters this was where his body laid.

    I handed the co-ordinates off to the Irvine Company and they seemed grateful. At least they now had specific co-ordinates and as long as the fence-hopping treasure hunters were always travelling to the wrong spot, the secret would probably remain.

  37. Steveyp

    December 30, 2021 at 10:35 am

    The leftovers

  38. @snyper105

    December 30, 2021 at 5:35 am

    The leftovers

    • @PinkLaptop

      February 13, 2024 at 12:06 pm

      Yes

  39. Gerald O'Hare

    February 7, 2022 at 8:12 pm

    When Frazier died the Frazier Clan from Scotland sent bagpipers to play at the funeral. He really was a King.

  40. @chairde

    February 7, 2022 at 3:12 pm

    When Frazier died the Frazier Clan from Scotland sent bagpipers to play at the funeral. He really was a King.

  41. Calvin Bryan

    May 4, 2022 at 8:29 pm

    Go grab,eid

  42. @calvinbryan9409

    May 4, 2022 at 4:29 pm

    Go grab,eid

  43. Calvin Bryan

    May 4, 2022 at 8:31 pm

    Go

  44. @calvinbryan9409

    May 4, 2022 at 4:31 pm

    Go

  45. @goobfilmcast4239

    January 1, 2024 at 5:44 pm

    Puts me in mind of an old Joke……Old Bull and young Bull standing at the top a steep hill. Young Bull turns to old bull….”let’s RUN down this hill and fu@k one of those heifers down there”…..old bull says “Nope…..let’s WALK down and fu@k them ALL”.

  46. @andresmolina5474

    March 10, 2024 at 5:13 pm

    That is a Mexican lion, si señor

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