A lioness found in an "online date" has set up home with a new partner in Edinburgh Zoo. Asiatic lion Roberta arrived last October from Magdeburg Zoo in Germany but has only recently been introduced to male resident Jay as part of a breeding programme. As an endangered species, an international project was set up to boost the number of Asiatic lions and Roberta and Jay were paired by experts due to their age and ancestry from a database zookeepers compared to an online dating site.
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