Nurturing the Pride

However, no matter how Rocco tried to approach the cub, it would just turn its head away, whining softly, but never opening its mouth.

Harper was stunned by Rocco's fierce parenting style with the cub.

"Rocco, listen to me first," Harper said. "Give this piece of beef to the other older desert lions."

"But if the cub doesn't eat, it will die," Rocco said.

Harper held up the cub's tiny baby teeth f