Into the Lions Den

Into the Lions Den is a Discovery Channel documentary about zoologist and big cat trainer Dave Salmoni armed only with a camera on a pole carefully conditioning a wild pride of lions to accept his presence The footage has been published as a 90minute movie 2004 directed by Anton Truesdale and narrated by Robert Jimenez It is set in the Thornybush reservation in South Africa and depicts Salmonis initial attempt to confirm his theory of safe cohabitation alongside a wild pride