My mom was a docent at the Bronx Zoo. She used to bring the baby animals around to children's hospitals. Once, she got to bring around a lion cub. I asked her what that was like. She said, "he was very very heavy and very very sleepy."
I loved the Bronx Zoo. Lived in New York back in the 50's and 60's. We donated my brother's pet alligator there when it outgrew my grandmother's bath tub. Actually it was just after he placed it in my grandmother's bath tub.