![]() ![]() They succeeded and Elsa became an independent wild lion. Joy and her husband decided to train the little lioness to be able to live as a wild animal. Two of the cubs were sent to a zoo, but Elsa, who was the runt of the pride, was too weak to handle the long journey. Joy and her husband raised all 3 cubs until they became too big to be handled by them and their helpers. He did not realize that the lioness was protecting three cubs. Her husband shot and killed a lioness after the animal attacked him. Her story as a wildlife guardian started by accident. Adamson later divorced Bally and married a game warden who was stationed at the Northern Frontier District in Kenya. These paintings were published in several different books. As his wife, she fulfilled one of her childhood dreams by painting pictures of the plants that he investigated. She made the trip by herself at first and after she arrived, she met a botanist named Peter Bally. Instead, she married and moved to Africa to escape the unstable political situation near her home. She was a creative child who wanted to be a pianist and painter, and later studied medicine, but she didn’t finish her education. ![]() Hunting was popular in her family, but after she shot a deer herself, she decided that she would never do it again. Born as Friedenrike Victoria Gessner in Troppau, a region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Joy Adamson, was the middle of three sisters. ![]()
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