Zoo must be confusing

Hands up everyone who was expecting it to be a special lion!

@rdm "Hands up"? U here to steal our lions? ;-)

Why has no one mentioned just how goshdarn CUTE that lion is

Fun fact: Belgium tastes like French fries.

@Greenhorn they are belgian fries

I guess it could also be a fish. Or a frog maybe.

Maybe it was a lion boar. What politician visited recently? (lying bore for those using English as their second language)

Me: (looking at the comments) Oh goodness sake, it's the white-and-gold/black-and-blue dress and laurel/yanny memes all over again.

Perhaps it was a jungle shark

From the video they showed in the news, definitely not a lion. Tail WAY too short and movement definitely that of a hoofed animal.

So yes, it was a boar. There are many memes now.

Got news for Germany; I lived there for years and I've *seen* the pic of the "wild boar." I was at a wildlife park the day one of the boars there uprooted the fence and a fully-grown boar, sow and their offspring all got out-- I saw them up close and personal. (European boars look freakin' PREHISTORIC.) The critter in that pic is NOT a boar, and a five-year-old could tell that. At a best guess I'd say a lioness, but it could also be a mountain lion-- rounded ears, no mane, generally a fairly light color for all parts of the animal that can be seen. I hope it's caught safely.

@Ysabet I've seen both pictures, and living in a place with wild big cats (Cougar, or Mountain Lion. Nobody around here calls them Puma.) (and Bobcat, a relative of the Lynx) I can tell you that is not a big cat of any kind. What it looks most like to me is nothing more than a domestic cow calf. Something else I've seen plenty of.

Could it be a wild European boar? Possibly, but it doesn't look right for that either. The neck doesn't look right.

@Tarmaque Can you provide links to the images in question?

@Unatsiwaya It's easy enough to find them by doing an image search for "Germany" and "Lion," but here's as good a one as any.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/lion-police-search-germany-wild-boar-berlin-rcna95501

@Ysabet I can well believe someone saw a boar, only like you say, it cannot be the animal in the picture of the alleged lionness I saw — proportions and colour totally wrong. (There are lots of wild boar in that area; I have heard reports from friends how the boar uprooted everything in their gardens again and again.) The picture I saw *would* fit a lionness, but was too unclear to be sure.
I could imagine someone illegally had a lionness as a "pet" that broke free. They will of course not out themselves as having that animal missing.

@jyrgen That was my thought when I saw this, except he kind of was outing himself: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66265874

I live in Germany