Three-legged lion makes record swim across ‘predator-infested’ Uganda river. Watch

Jacob, a 10-year-old lion living in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, has been through a lot. Now walking on just three legs, Jacob has been gored by a buffalo, poisoned by humans, caught in a poacher snare and escaped then caught in a poacher’s steel trap, leading to the amputation of his back left leg and his reputation as a “local icon,” researcher Alexander Braczkowski said in a July 10 news release from Griffith University. “Jacob has had the most incredible journey and really is a cat with nine lives,”...