Ms Ana Julia Torres kissing Jupiter, a lion which was rescued
from a circus 12 years ago and which she nursed back to health, at
the Villa Lorena animal shelter in Cali, Valle del Cauca
department, Colombia on Saturday. Ms Torres, a 52-year-old teacher,
founded the Villa Lorena animal shelter 17 years ago, which
protects about 600 animals seized from drug traffickers, circuses
and animal traffickers, or which were abandoned by their
owners.