Elsa the lioness
FEMALE LION BRED IN CAPTIVITY IN KENYA BY RANGER GEORGE ADAMSON AND HIS WIFE JOY ADAMSON, WHICH INSPIRED JOY ADAMSON'S BOOK "BORN FREE"
Elsa the Lioness; Lioness Elsa
Elsa the lioness ( 28 January 195624 January 1961) was a female lion raised along with her sisters "Big One" and "Lustica" by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy Adamson after they were orphaned at only a few days old. Though her two sisters eventually went to the Netherlands' Rotterdam Zoo, Elsa was trained by the Adamsons to survive on her own, and was eventually released into the wild.