After the premiere of Heart of a Lioness on Sunday, March 6, presenter Saba Douglas-Hamilton joined us for a live discussion about the show. Here are her answers to your questions.

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Animal Planet also took the time to respond to many of your comments about the show's ending. Read the response here.

lordofthepainteddogs: Have there been other documented cases, even anecdotal, of lionesses or just any big cats adopting a prey species?

Saba Douglas-Hamilton: Nothing that I know of. However, when we did our research we came across a book called Wild Boys and Savage Girls about human children that had been adopted by animals. The most interesting story was about two young girls who were adopted by the same pack of wolves in India on different occasions, I think with an eight year gap between them. There was also a young boy in Russia who was taken in by a pack of feral dogs on the streets of Moscow, and a young child in Uganda adopted by a troop of vervet monkeys. In legend, there is the story of Romulus and Remus who founded Rome and were raised by a pack of wolves. And of course Daniel and the lion's den. When it is humans we pay attention, but it is only recently that we have the knowledge of animal behavior that we are able to investigate some of the instances in the natural world between different species.

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