Today is a special day at the Lincoln Park Zoo as the three lion cubs born there in January make their outdoor debut.
Zoo members and staff got to see the three-month-old cubs take their first tentative steps outside.
"They literally have never seen grass before. They've never stepped on it to see what that feels like," Dave Bernier, General Currator, said.
Bernier explained that the birth of these cubs help fulfill the zoo's mission of conservation, as the zoo is part of the species survival plan for African lions.
"This is the recommended breeding for the lions that are in zoos across the country. And this is so we can have a really good, strong genetic and demographic population for lines that can persist well into the future," Bernier said. "But we also do some really great field work in Tanzania."
In no time the cubs named Pesho, Sidai and Lomelok, with input from the zoo’s conservation partners in Tanzania, seemed very comfortable roaming and playing.
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