This is Dillinger
Posted By thecircusblog on October 12, 2011
This lion was renowned big cat trainer, Allen King’s fighting lion. He was featured on the Navy pier at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933. The act was exhibited in the Standard Oil Co show. In 1934 Allen King sold Dillinger to the Lincoln Park Zoo, where he got his name from the keepers at the zoo. Dillinger proved to be savage and too unruly for the King’s act and continued his disposition at the Lincoln Park Zoo. He would eat 12 to 15 lbs of horse meat a day, except Mondays which was a fast day for big cats at the zoo. He was 27 years old when he died at the zoo in 1952.
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