Why was he found? They don’t deal with dangerous animals in pairs? Why was he in the cage with the lion??? I’ve seen other zoos, they feed animals through a hatch.
Lions get very protective of their food, even fighting each other while eating their kill. The lion didn’t eat the poor man, so he was probably protecting his food.
Did you ever see that movie “The Ghost And The Darkness” with Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas? You’d be surprised how brutal lions 🦁 can really be.