

This proves to be a good decision as Elsa eventually starts leaving the Adamsons for days at a time and eventually makes several kills. Joy still believes that she can teach Elsa to survive as she opposes sending her to a zoo, where she will have no freedom. However, they find her severely injured (possibly by wild lions). Eventually, Joy and George decide to leave Elsa in the bush for at least a week and change the location of their camp so that Elsa can become more independent. Elsa is constantly taken out to the bush but fails to make a kill, getting attacked by a warthog on one of these outings. Initially, they attempt to introduce Elsa to a male lion, which does not go to plan – they leave her overnight with a fresh zebra kill but return in the morning to find her all by herself. Joy and George travel to Meru National Park where they aim to release Elsa.
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However, Joy instead wishes to teach Elsa how to survive in the wild, which Kendall reluctantly gives her and George three months to do.

Kendall states that the Adamsons can no longer keep Elsa and must find a zoo to take her in. On returning to the Northern Province, the Adamsons learn that Elsa has caused a massive elephant stampede. George successfully manages to kill the lion and he and Joy are able to share a special holiday with Elsa, where they introduce her to the Indian Ocean. Some years later, Joy and George soon have to travel to Kiunga as George has been told by his boss, John Kendall (Geoffrey Keen) about a lion who is killing goats in a local village. When the cubs get too old, the older two are sent to Rotterdam Zoo but the Adamsons choose to keep Elsa. They name the cubs Big One, Lastika and Elsa who is the youngest and the one which Joy and George become especially attached to. Realizing they are now motherless, George brings the three cubs home to his wife Joy (Virginia McKenna) and raises them. British senior wildlife warden, George Adamson (Bill Travers) is sent in to kill the menacing lion and also his female, who charges him in defence of her three cubs. In the Northern Province of Kenya, a woman is killed and eaten by a male lion.
