Elderly Lion Couple That Were Soulmates Are Put To Sleep At The Same Time So Neither Has To Live Alone

A zoo euthanized an ailing elderly lion couple together so neither of the animal soulmates had to live without one another. Hubert and his partner Alisa were put to sleep at LA Zoo on Thursday. Both animals were 21 years old.

'Their undivided attention was always on the other as they rested together, cuddled and nuzzled often.' And the zoo's animal curator Alisa Behar said losing the couple at the same time was a double-blow for staff and fans of the animals. She said: 'This is a very hard loss for our zoo community," Alisa Behar, the zoo's curator of mammals, said in a statement. 'In the early mornings, staff would routinely hear Hubert's waking roars, and I will personally miss hearing them on my walks around the grounds. 'You cannot think of Hubert without thinking of his companion, Kalisa; they've been an inseparable couple for years.'