“Police say three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl kidnapped by men who wanted to force her into marriage, chasing off her abductors and guarding her until police and relatives tracked her down in a remote corner of Ethiopia.” (CNN via boing boing)
Because the girl was whimpering from her traumatization, the lions, of whom fewer than a thousand remain in Ethiopia, probably mistook her for a mewling cub, a wildlife expert commented.
