Travelling animal shows gave people their first glimpse of lions and other exotic creatures at British fairs. Even Queen Victoria saw them at a fair in Windsor. Keeping wild animals was risky.

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They face a number of threats in the wild ... have to put individual animals through a lot of surgeries and procedures in order to make cloned offspring,” she told CBC Kids News.