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If you're not happy, tell me now. >> all right, let's not go. >> the folks who come here, knowing these animals are in an enclosure. knowing these animals have been hand raised and yet still pull that trigger, it's not a real hunt. >> right from the beginning, the idea was that he was never, ever going to shoot the lion. but we certainly needed to go through the process to find out what happens on these properties, what they're about.

>> all right. let's go take a look. >> i want you to shoot the lion here. >> in the shoulder? >> in the shoulder. >> the reason why they were saying shoot it in the shoulder so that you would disable him so that way he could not charge. >> if you shoot a bad shot in this area, the lion -- there's the possibility of more than one shot. and we want you to kill the lion with one shot. >> if it happens that a lion end up on one of us, don't shoot, please don't shoot. always go down on your knees. >> they wanted you to feel that you were in the worst kind of danger. like you were going to die if yo...

Prettier. they have bigger manes because they've been bred for that. the ranches don't have the thick brush. the wild lions actually live in the brush. by walking through the brush all the time, it actually rips out their manes so most wild lions don't have a big full black mane, for example. >> i want to select my animal. i'm able to say a lion with a dark mane, needs to have some character. look at this lion, all the character and lines and marks on it. so where do i get a lion like that? i can ask a rancher, do you have a lion like that? he can tell me yes, i do or no i don't. in an open ar...

Sense, the instant gratification has brought rise to things like the captive-bred lion shooting, as we call it. hunting is not a term i would use there. >> the captive lion industry and the canned lion industry have actually created a completely new market. the hunter who will go to tanzania and spend huge amounts of money on a 21-day hunt knowing he may not even get that lion is a totally different market to the market that comes to south africa, who pays the money for a guaranteed hunt and he can get lion and whatever else he wants. >> people don't want to go and hunt wild lions and prefer t...

Contribute to conservation because they take the pressure off wild looip lion herds in the ever decreasing habitat that they have. and it also encourages the ranch owners to actually breed the lions, because the economics of the situation are, if an animal doesn't have an economic value, the rancher is not going to grow it. the lion was raised and other lions will be raised for future hunters. this is conservation, because if it wasn't for the hunter, the lion wouldn't be there. he never would have been bred. >> but the lion will inevitably die anyway, but it's being hunted. >> but at least it...