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an eight-foot cage. i couldn't see a scenario where i was going to get out of this unharmed. >> and the true story behind one of the most popular videos on the web. >> oh, no. >> a three-way battle for survival with an ending -- >> they come running in to save him. >> -- you will have to see to believe. from wild to wonderful. amazing animals caught on tape. thanks for joining us. it doesn't matter whether it's a viral video, blockbuster movie or a day at the zoo, people love to watchman always. we have collected some mazing animal videos from the web, our archives and one or two closets. as you'll see, what is extraordinary about these animals isn't just what we learn about them but what they teach us about ourselves.

>> the three of us, my wife and my oldest daughter. taking some video of some of the monkeys in the trees. >> there's one right here. >> i heard a loud noise. i automatically started watching. i got in front of a zookeeper who had a walkie-talkie up to his ear. he started running. he told me that a child had fallen into the gorilla pit. >> the gorilla has got her. >> that's when things started to get hectic. >> there she is. we need some help. >> at first i didn't want to look. i didn't want to know. i didn't want to see what i was about to see. >> down in the gorilla rage. >> the gorilla has the boy.

that's when i peered over and saw the gorilla. >> oh, my god. >> you felt like it was your child. you wanted to be able to hen him. you wanted to get him away from the gorillas. >> the other gorillas were circling around making these weird noises when it happened. we heard, i call it screeching from the other gorillas. all i saw is all of them coming towards the child. >> for all we knew they were going to try to attack the baby or, you know, use it as a toy. the mother was streaming frantically. somebody do something. that's my baby. the gorilla has my baby. i told her, my husband is a paramedic. he ran to help. a bunch of people from the zoo started coming into the exhibit. they started bringing out hoses so they could hose the gorillas out of the way.

the mother, of course, didn't want to take her eyes off the boy. the feeling of panic that you have. >> i'm a paramedic, but i can't get down there. i start zooming in so i can get a better look and i see she's cradling the boy. the boy is face up now. >> we had no idea until we saw the videotape afterwards that bill had taken that the gorilla was actually rocking the the child. >> translator: way she was cradling that boy was unbelievable. just holding onto him. i could see the lower half of him. just not too far from the log. there was a water stream directly above. there was a zookeeper above. he strayed down there then and she took off running. and left the boy there.

>> she saved this little boy's life. brought him where we could easily get toeul. to him. >> i could actually say i could look at venti has a human. she did more than some humans would have done. she stood up against her own people and she fought for that child. she treated that child like he was hers. >> i think she honestly is a hero of the whole story. >> they put out fires, save lives, and every now and then firefighters are called upon to rescue say cat stuck up in a tree. but that's nothing compared to what one fireman in superior, wisconsin did to save the life of a kitten. >> i was captain of engine nebraska 2.

shortly after 8:00 in the morning we received a fire alarm indicating that we had a structure fire on the east side of town. we were informed by radio that the family had escaped out the rear side of the building by breaking a window. it. >> was pretty hot in there. there was lots of smoke. we heard a real faint meow, sounded like a small kitten. we found him in a closet. >> we brought him outside into the fresh air. and they were smoked up pretty bad. one especially showed no signs of life. >> it didn't look like he was moving very much. he wasn't moving at all, actually. >> it was a knee-jerk reaction for me to pick this kitten up and start doing cpr. obviously, there's no textbook about how to do this. so we're just basically scaling it down, lighter puffs of air, lighter compression. and obviously our concern is if we were too aggressive we may hurt the little kitten.

if we weren't aggressive enough, we may not save it. >> when he had the cats in his hands he was cradling it. it was difficult to give mouth-to-mouth to a cat. but it was getting oxygen apparently and working very well. with his thumbs he was massaging and pushing on the cat's chest. >> a young boy by mother bought me a dog. it was 2 years old. and i had that dog until i was 20 years old. so i know the value of pets to a family. >> i didn't know if it was going to work. i hoped it was going to work. the driver of our crew brought some oxygen in. >> i noticed there was signs of life, some twitching and we could see the eyes starting to open up. i had to stay with it. it is possible, it is very possible i could save this life. >> a little bit of time and he's coming back. >> it seemed like it took a good 12 to 15 minutes before we were able to say this kitten is going

to be okay and we could set it down with the other four and they all huddled together and they seemed to be happy again. >> over the years i've seen a lot of bad events. it's inevitable. it's nice when something happens that's good. >> all the kittens were adopted out. my wife decided that we should have this one cat. strangely enough, she loved my wife but she was very stand-offish about me. maybe she had nightmares about the day she was rescued. coming up, a dangerous game of hide-and-seek with a famous four-ton whale. of hide-and-seek with a famous four-[ male announcer ] citibank's new app for ipad makes it easy for anne to view her finances from anywhere. like gate d12 for the next three hours. citibank for ipad. easier banking. standard at citibank.

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when a killer whale drowned a trainer in 2010 at orlando seaworld it was the first such death in the company's 50-year history. one of the most frightening attacks was caught on tape by a texas tv reporter and his wife during a visit to san antonio seaworld. >> we go every year to seaworld. and the very first stop is shamu show. >> that is the original shamu. >> we got there early. wanted to get a good seat. >> and the girls wanted to sit in the splash zone because that's what's so fun about going to the show. >> the music is pumping. the whales are jumping out of the water. the trainers are on them flying through the air. it's like a circus in the water. >> everything is going great. >> i just decided to put my video camera up. i said, okay, i've got enough of this. that's when the whale just

stopped and the trainer couldn't get him to respond to any of his commands. >> you could see that the trainer looked at someone off to the side and motioned like cut the music or stop. >> i thought maybe it was a comedy show at one point. i thought, okay, this is kind of funny. i'll keep rolling. and the whale just went over onto the trainer with his whole body. >> the trainer would come up. just as he would come up he would just do it again. >> when i saw that, i was like, is this part of the comedy? i don't think it is. >> all of the trainers, they're just doing everything they can, patting the water, offering fish. they were all just trying to get the whale away from the trainer. >> we did try to get out of the water at one time. >> he was this close to getting out. >> but as soon as he would swim to the side, the whale would disappear in the water and

reappear between the trainer and the side of the swimming pool like that. >> and he just came up out of nowhere and nudged him back to the middle. >> it was almost like the whale had a play toy with him. >> i lost count as to how many times he dunked him under water. >> it looked like he was trying to drown the trainerment that's what it appeared. just unrelenting attacks. just over and over and over. >> to me it seemed like the trainer wasn't going to make it. you could see in the trainer's face he was scared. >> am i going to videotape the death of someone? >> i don't know if i want to be a witness to this. i don't know if i want my children to be a witness to this. >> this is a whale, and he wasn't stopping.

>> and then he did stop. i don't know why. it just happened. i guess he was tired of playing with him. the entire thing ended just how it began. he was just in the water just swimming around. >> it was almost like the whale was trying to say he was sorry -- or not sorry but it's okay now, isn't it? you're not mad at me. i was just playing. he knew he had done something wrong. >> once he calmed the whale down, everybody was clapping. and there were a group of 15 or 20 trainers and the seaworld trainers back in the back with him that i could see. and you could tell they were saying i don't know what happened. i don't know what went wrong. >> they are still wild animals. they don't want to do what they do every day three or four times a day. >> ultimately it's good to have these animal shows. but sometimes things go wrong

like they did that day in san an toeeo. we have gone to seaworld since that time and haven't had a problem. of course i had my video camera with me just in case something happened. there are wildlife sanctuaries, bird sanctuaries. but i bet you didn't know there was an elephant sanctuary in tennessee with a dog who is not just man's best friend. i met tara when i was in my first year of college. she was on exhibit. >> a couple years later carol purchased tara from her owner. >> it wasn't because i wanted to own an el fact. it was because i felt i could do better by her. >> tar ra. you're supposed to do circus work. she was at one point the only roller skating elephant. >> she was getting larger, maturing and entertaining was

not something she wanted to do anymore. >> carol realized she needed more space, companionship and what could we do to provide that? >> the open sanctuary is where they can live in nature and just be elephants. we founded the sanctuary in 1995. it's in tennessee. they are rescued from zoos and circuses all over north america. >> we bring them in, rehabilitate them and try to give them a better life. >> it is nice to see them in freedom enjoying their life. >> elephants are incredibly social. >> tara has always liked dogs. but they're two completely different species and the two just don't watch, until bella came along. >> tara and bella are inseparable friends. >> it's comical. it's incredibly comical. >> they go swimming together. they wander the property. >> bella has this sort of feel

she's protecting tara. from what, nobody knows. >> sometimes tara is leading bella, sometimes bella is leading tara. >> one time-out she was injured. >> some sort of spinal injury. we brought bella home. >> tara remained in the same place that bella had been hurt for two days. then on the third day tara came back to the barn, right to the same place where bella was. >> before tara even made it back to the barn, her tail started wagging. >> scott ran over, picked up bella, took her outside to tara, brought her right up to tara. and tara is chattering, making her little elephant noises. tara reached down and touched all over her and talked and talked and talked to her. >> the last couple weeks she would be back once or twice a day until she was able to go back out in the pasture with tara.

>> they bring joy to each other. >> they will be friends forever. there's no doubt about that. >> little tiny bella and, you know, 9,000 pound tara running together. >> emotions are not exclusive to humans. >> they communicate in a way that is beyond words. we really don't understand animals. there's a depth of emotion that we are not aware of. we have a sad update to our story. in october 2011, the elephant sanctuary report thad bella had died from a likely coyote attack. officials believe it was tara who found bella and carried her body back to the elephant barn, a true friend to the end. coming up, two divers come face to face with a curious and furious great white shark. >> this was a 16-foot shark in

an eight-foot cage. couldn't see a scenario where i was going to get out of

you know how they say curiosity killed the cat? the curiosity of one bear cub ended up almost killing its mom.

>> my name is mark berkhouser, i'm a conservation officer with the mexico department of game and fish. >> my name is cary olsen and i'm a news photographer. >> we got word that a bear cub had been captured in the northeast heights of albuquerque. >> we were put on alert that there was a cub that came into town and mama might be coming to look for her. the next morning mama bear showed up. >> i knew that this was going to be a good shot. we don't get bears in town very often. >> we went through backyards and city streets and at one point we ran through a swimming pool and it was pretty frantic looking for its cub. >> and that's when she ran up the telephone pole. >> to capture wild life sometimes we have to dart them, tranquilizer them.

>> when she got shot in the butt she turned around like who just hit me? >> it started to fall asleep. >> you could see that she was trying to hold on, but she started sliding down the pole, and all of a sudden. >> it was incredible, the sparks that flew. i think there was one giant -- >> oh! >> we thought she was dead. we thought there was no way any animal could have survived that explosion. >> we got hate mail. people were very, very angry with how we handled that bear. >> people were upset. how could you do this to this poor bear? >> think they should have waited it out and had it come down by itself. >> we weren't out to torture the bear and we were trying to capture it as quickly as it could and remove it from the situation where it didn't get hit by a car. >> it was a lot worse than it was. >> she was obviously in some pain. the vet said the fur protected here a lot from the electricity. >> no broken bones or anything

like that, just the bad burn. >> they did a dna test and it was the mother of the cub. >> we went ahead and united the two. so now we have mama and cub back together. >> i'm not sure who nicknamed it, but she picked up the name sparky. >> it was decided to keep them throughout the winter at the zoo where we could take care of them and turn them loose in the spring. they both ran and went running on up toward the mountains and it was a nice sight to see. >> think people like animals a lot more than they like each other. >> as far as we know the bear is still up there running around. it's just incredible that something that looks so bad can have such a good ending. >> if you go swimming with sharks, even if you're protected by a cage, you have to expect a little danger. what you do not expect is to end up with a shark inside the cage with you. >> i really enjoy the outdoors. scuba diving is a new passion for me. >> i've been diving for about 28

years. i always wanted to be in the water. >> as soon as i break the surface of that water all those problems that are going on in everyday life just disappear, and i'm just alone with myself any the creatures in the ocean. >> i'm definitely an adrenaline junkie. >> this dive site is off of the island of guadalupe, 160 miles off the coast of baja, california. >> i had a little bit of apprehension about being that close to the top predator in the ocean. >> it takes us about 24 hours to motor down there. >> you've got really warm water and tons of sharks. on the first day, we definitely had an exciting moment. we had a shark actually, a big female come in and she grabbed a hold of one of the baits and hit right at the bottom where i was filming right at the bottom of the cage. >> you could feel the noise and feel the impact. >> knocked my camera back,

bruised my hand a little bit and swam right off. >> it was a thrilling experience, and i felt safe, but it definitely put a little bit of perspective to the whole thing. ♪ >> the second day we could see this one shark coming way from the deep and breaks the water and took the bait in with one bite and when she came back in she just came straight at us. ♪ >> right away, i knew that my life was in jeopardy. >> when she hit it was like a car accident. all i'm seeing is the eyes and the nose of the fish, a huge amount and the big, sharp, white teeth. the shark snapped the whole front of his cage off and came right inside with us. >> so at that point it was stuck in the cage.

>> and i thought paul had been bit and i was next, and i knew i had to get out of the cage. this was a 16-foot shark in an eight-foot cage. i could aren't see a scenario where i was going to get out of this unharmed. >> i could not see. i knew it was right there, and you could feel it right on your back. >> when a moment like that happens time really slows down. it was like it happened for ten minutes instead of 15 seconds. ♪ >> i moved to the side where i knew that there was a trap door and slid that open. i basically sprung out of the water. >> the shark was able to shake loose the cage and the dive masters were able to pull me completely out of the water. >> and i was out of the water on the swim step, and i just remember distinctly going -- whoo!

>> there's always a danger when you are out with wild animals. anything can happen at any moment. >> for both of us to come out of it unscathed, it was amazing. it was completely amazing. i'm happy to make it out alive. >> coming up, it is one of the most dangerous predators on earth, even behind bars. >> caught in the jaws of a polar bear. >> i'll never forget her scream. it was definitely someone who needed help. plus, will a mother's day dive go deadly? >> i thought my god she's in the whale's mouth. when "amazing animals caught on tape" continues. [ male announcer ] citibank's new app for ipad

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there's a reason there are cages and fences at zoos and it's not just to keep the animals in. it's also to keep people out. >> we have about 100, 120 animals, 36 different species. we take in orphaned, rescued animals. >> i was just walking through the zoo on a lovely, warm, july day. ♪ >> i think he was an orphaned polar bear from the north slope, an australian tourist had decided to get a picture and

katherine climbed over two fences to get up to the polar bear fence which he could reach through so once katherine climbed over that second fence he jumped up and grabbed her. >> all of a sudden from a distance i heard terrible, terrible screams. [ screaming ] >> i'll never forget her scream. it was definitely someone who needed help. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. >> i ran over to -- in the direction of the screams and i topped have my video camera with me. >> i saw katherine being held by the hip by the polar bear. he had her off the ground. >> it was the largest animal i've ever seen in my life. he had his teeth wrapped around katherine's thigh. when i arrived there and saw her

like that i just thought i've got to get her free. >> in all of my experiences as a physician i've never seen anything as frightening. had the polar bear got her femoral artery, she would have bled to death in seconds. >> i threw my radio at him, it just bounced off his head. and then i grabbed a hold of katherine and it was just like playing tug-of-war. >> get a gun! tranquilizer gun! >> the bear would pull katherine towards him and the zookeepers would pull katherine back towards them. >> she must have felt like a rag doll being tossed around like that. >> they kept hitting him on the head. it did no good. >> she did make a couple of pleas to don't let go. just don't let go of me. >> that's it. get over there with them. >> the polar bear tried to get a different grip on her leg by

pulling on her. i'd get a little more on her every time and then katherine's shoe slipped off and her foot just slid through the polar bear's mouth and then she was free. >> i just felt the crushing of my leg. >> believe it was almost two weeks that she was in the hospital. she had some open wounds. a lot of bruising. she also had a broken leg. >> very lucky. i feel very fortunate. >> katherine never blamed the polar bear. there was no one who even suggested putting him down. >> i think the bear was innocent in all of this. >> there is a picture of him holding the tennis shoe. >> it ended up being on a t-shirt that the zoo sold. >> remember walking away thinking did that just happen? >> yeah. looking back, it was the dumbest thing i've ever done in my life. it was just another beautiful

day in the blue pacific wave. the diver was having the time of her life swimming with an underwater camera and all of a sudden she found herself in desperate need of rescue and not by a human, by a whale. ♪ >> i grew up in the florida keys. i swam with whales and dolphins quite a bit. i've been diving since i was 6. ♪ >> i was in hawaii on holiday to spend some more time swimming with the whales and dolphins. it was mother's day. >> we've been doing underwater photography for quite a few years. i met lisa at a party and she found out what i was doing and she volunteered to go out on my boat with me. >> it was a calm day and we're out filming some dolphins and just having fun. we saw some activity maybe ten miles out and we went out there. >> incredible. god, what a day.

>> as we got closer it turned out it was a group of pilot whales. >> they're very playful right now. >> lisa was very anxious to go in the water. she went in the water shortly before i did and as soon as i entered the water a pilot whale swam right up to the camera. she and a pilot whale were approaching each other. one male came up to me and stopped and i extended my arms and i kind of slowly drifted next to him and i started touching him. >> she had her body right up against it and they came up together and this is something i've never seen before because pilot whales are wild animals. as soon as i saw her make contact i got very concerned and the second pilot whale actually charged at her. and grabbed her leg in its mouth. >> it happened very fast, but i

started swimming away, and he came around my right side and grabbed my ankle and all of a sudden i realized i couldn't breathe. he was doing a dive with me in his mouth and went down about 40 feet. >> i was thinking, my god, she's in the whale's mouth. >> and i looked up and i saw how deep i was, i knew that there was no way, even if he let go i was going to make it to the surface in time to get a breath. >> i thought she was going die at that point. she was actually struggling in the whale's mouth and i was praying that the whale would let her go. >> i'm a single parent thinking of my son matt, and who was going to take care of him? i knew i was down to the second, and i looked at him right in the eye, and i said i'm really in trouble. well, little did i know when i was going through that he was heading toward the surface, but i couldn't tell that the surface was going to be there quick enough for me to live. the last 15 feet his whole body bolts to the surface as though,

he goes, she's going to drown, i'll take her up and when i got to the surface and started breathing it was such a relief and i couldn't get enough air in my lungs. >> as i pulled her out i was quite happy that she wasn't missing any parts. >> the moral of the story is you don't want to touch pilot whales. lisa was very, very lucky to have survived. coming up, a baby buffalo caught in a life or death tug-of-war between lions and a crocodile until dad comes to the rescue. >> look at that. >> ooh! >> one of the most popular videos on the web when "amazing animals caught on tape" continues. e powerful.

when not used in the right way, they can divide a nation. but when used wisely, they can bring us together in ways that make us stronger. words can connect us all... the more you know. you may have already seen this video on the web, but there's probably a lot you don't know about it. a tourist on his first trip to africa using a camera for just the second time captured a raw and all-too-real threeway struggle for survival. with over 60 million views, the battle at krueger has become one of the most talked about videos online. >> look at that little one. he's so cute. >> it was late one day at the end of an afternoon safari. >> those are nice antlers. >> oh!

>> we are about to race back to camp to beat the sunset. our guide said let's stop at the watering hole. >> there was a group of lions to one side and then the cross around on the other side were cape buffalo. >> i thought to myself, oh, my gosh, i better have the camera on. it could be very interesting. three of the buffalo started to walk toward the lions. the lions started to see the buffalo approaching. they were crouching. the buffalo couldn't see them. >> he's looking like he doesn't have a care in the world. that is a huge buffalo. >> finally, the lead big buffalo understands that there's danger. he turns on a dime and starts running back. >> i saw a lion come into view to the right and passed the other lions up and passed the lead, big buffalo and jumped on the baby and dragged it into the water. >> he's going for him, he's going for him. he got him! oh, she did!

>> did you see that? unbelievable. they seem like almost a free for all. they're trying to drag him out. they're dragging him out and just then i saw splash and i heard the lady say -- and i saw this huge crocodile grab a hold of the baby's rear leg and try to drag it into the water. >> the crocodile. they're going to get the baby. >> an opportunistic crocodile decides i'm going take that for lunch. >> oh, no! >> and that's when the tug-of-war begins. >> they're going to lose it. >> oh, my gosh. they're going to fight over it. >> oh, my gosh. >> eventually the crocodile gave up. >> everybody thought, well, it's over. the lions have won, the baby's dead. >> at this point, the herd came back.

>> look at all those buffalo. >> they come running in to save the baby. >> the cavalry. >> they're going to come, but i think they're too late. >> i think you're right. >> i don't know how they communicated and i don't know how they all mustered the courage to go together, but there was something that was going on, something beyond our ears. >> ooh, they've got him surrounded and the lions were trapped. the water in the back and the buffalo in the front. the big buffalo is spearheading the attack. >> it seemed like it was the daddy buffalo. >> he kicks the first lion. >> whoa! >> he swatted at him and kicked at him. >> the lion and cape buffalo truly do hate one another. >> he's kicking at him, look. he's kicking at him. >> we think it was the same buffalo that got another lion and hooked it with its horns and threw it in the air.

>> ooh! >> by now the lions know that they are outnumbered. it was pandemonium after that. >> they were chasing lions one way. chasing lions the other and there were only two or three lions left on top of the baby that we thought was probably dead by then and then it stood up. >> the calf's still alive. >> is it? >> yeah. it's trying to get away. it's standing up. >> he's standing up! it stood straight up and walked back into the herd like nothing had happened. it was just a miracle. >> when we saw the baby get up, we were astounded. these two lions were left there looking around like, what are we going to do next? >> they're lions. they've got egos on and pride and they just said let's count our losses and get out of here. >> they charged them again and they chased them off into the woods. they chased them away. at the very end all we saw was

just this big herd of buffalo. no lions. they were gone. >> they think that the baby lived. i know it doesn't seem possible, but he looked like he was fine. >> the co-founder of youtube says this is his favorite video of all time. >> they're crouching. this, to me is almost like a disney movie because something bad happens in the beginning. >> he got him. >> there's a struggle. >> ooh! >> and then at the end the good guys win. >> i've never seen anything like this. >> think that's why it's so popular. coming up, some lions are fierce. >> he's going for him, he's going for him. he got him. >> and some, just down right friendly. >> and that's when he took off. >> a lion in love. >> it was a completely overwhelming moment. wh

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the lion you'll meet in this video, a giant hit on the web, let's just say he's a lover and not a fighter. christian the lion was raised by two young men living in london during the swinging '60s. you could actually buy a lion in the department store and eventually he got too big for the city so they found him a new home in africa, but christian never forgot who gave him his first home. ♪

>> we just walked into paris after a day of sight-seeing and there to our surprise were two lion cubs. the lioness and the cub that we called christian. he was totally, totally irresistible. we thought we could do as good a job as anyone else. and we thought we have to have him. let's buy him. it was a shock having a lion in our lives. there is no lion manual. when we brought christian back to sophisticate. which was the name of the shop we were working, he settled in remarkably quickly. there was a space underneath which was entirely. >> every day we took him up to this churchyard up the road to exercise him and play football with him. >> we did have a marvelous, even-tempered, friendly nature and i think we just became part of his family like a pride of lions. he knew he was the center of the world and everyone was there to look after him. we were never afraid that he was ever going to attack us.

the only time he ever scratched us was by accident, but we did have to be careful. >> quite quickly he reached a stage where he was actually heavy enough, if he actually struggled with us, we couldn't contain him. >> it was becoming obvious that he was getting too big to stay in london. people were alarmed by the size of him. there weren't many options. ♪ >> and then we met george adamson, his wife joy adamson had written the book "born free" and it was a film that was hugely popular and he was that man who knew more about lions than anyone else in the world offering to rehabilitate christian. >> he believed you could have an extraordinary emotional attachment to lions. >> before we could get him to africa there was a lot of legally, that would have to go on in kenya because the concept of bringing a lion to africa was rather alien.

surely, we have enough lions in africa. ♪ ♪ >> for the first few days christian did spend a lot of time on the camp bed and we were quite worried that we had totally spoiled him. it took quite a while for him to assimilate. he was fit, but not fighting fit, not african fit. >> it was so beautiful to be in africa where we could just walk down to the river with him in the evenings, and him just lolling and hanging out with him. we could see george was enjoying him and beginning to appreciate him and we were out there for several months and after a while george thought it would be a good idea for us to go away for christian to get used to the

of us not being there. >> it was his destiny for him to be there and for that to succeed we had to step back. >> we returned to london, and i did shed a tear or two, i must admit. a year after we left we flew up there to see christian. the lions hadn't been seen for a few days, but they had come in that morning and george said i know where he is. you wait here at the bottom of that rock. he went over and brought christian back, and you could see in the clip, christian looks and instantly, he knows something's up. >> i think george said call him and so we called his name and that's when he took off. ♪ and i will always love you >> it was a completely overwhelming moment and we just

had this extraordinary reunion with him. we knew that he'd be excited to see us and we were so excited to see him, but the exuberance is what surprised everyone. >> we were not frightened for a moment and trusted him, loved him. we left feeling that he was very close to being totally self-sufficient because he was traveling further and further away to establish his territory. we'd become nearly irrelevant to his life, and that was a good sign. we didn't mind that at all. no one actually knows what happened to christian in the end, if he had been shot or poached we're pretty confident we would have heard. he was returning to the wild, and that was the whole idea of it. >> this was a huge success story, unpredictably so, christian somehow made it all possible. >> i think with our animals we wonder how much they love us and he was an example of a relationship really being tested and with your own eyes you could seat