Lion affection: the soft side of the wild...

Lately I've been very interested in Lions life and interactions among them and with human and a hidden side keeps relieving itself the more I watch the documentaries. Every documentary has a little segment that I think should be studied a little more, it's about those beasts personality, emotion and affecting towards human. How camera crew can be within meters of their feast and not one lion would stop them or attack them, how in some reserves in Africa they let a human touch them and play with them even next to their cubs and lionesses, how some expert can actually command the lions and go on unleashed walks with them and they would only follow him. It all showed me that these animals can be part of the human life. The affection of a pet is beyond any tie between two souls, ask any dog owner. They love their owner more than life itself, they look at him like a God to them and mostly they love their owner no matter what he/she does to them. I think the same could be told about lions, and what greater affection then the one coming from a beast weighing more than you and could kill you in one stroke but chooses to hug you and listen to you? We all remember "Christian the lion" well here's another example...

And for those who don't know who Christian the lion is here he is...