
Meet Mufasa, a mountain lion who was kept in a Peruvian circus for some 20 years, despite a national law passing in 2011 to ban wild animals from circuses. Yes, Mufasa’s captors did everything in their power to evade the crack-down from authorities that followed the ruling. In fact, poor Mufasa remained in chains even as police systematically removed big cats and other wild animals from circuses and relocated them to sanctuaries in other countries.