| Registered: | 00:57 Mon 6/23/2008 |
| Last Modified: | 02:34 Wed 7/9/2008 |
| Species: | Lion |
| Sex: | Female |
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Jamila
Personality: quiet, dignified, keenly aware of injustice.
The fiction:
One day, a small, remote zoo in South Africa rescued a small, sickly cub which they named Jamila. As a cub, she was obliviously happy, and never gave a thought to much of anything except three square meals a day, napping in the afternoon sun, playing occasionally with the keepers, and being shown off for educational purposes. Overall, it was a conventional but pleasant life for her.
As she grew into adulthood, the keepers were planning on pairing her with a male lion that they had just rescued. When Jamila discovered their plan, she was disgusted, having no desire to be forced into having a mate, and began planning her escape. However, she was captured and tranquilized by environmentalists before she could carry it out. They set her free in the African Savannah, along with an abnormally small adolescent cheetah, Siku (a couple others that were scattered across the savannah as well).
The environmentalists, however, didn't realize what they'd done, for since the two felines grew up in a sheltered environment, neither of them knew how to live without the help of the humans.
One day, Siku is attacked by a jaguar, another one of the escaped cats from their former home. Jamila bravely defended her friend and saved his life, and a heated argument ensued between her and the South American cat. Long story short, due to his superior hunting skills, at length, they form a unfriendly alliance. Eventually, the jaguar and Jamila fall in love. Sadly, her husband died soon after due to poaching. Jamila never saw him after that time, and believed him to have abandoned her. She slipped into a deep depression which eventually took her life during birth of her hybrid cub, which she named Vakasa before she died.
cub Jamila:
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