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A Ukrainian zookeeper plans to spend five weeks
living in an enclosure with two lions to raise funds for the zoo.
Alexander Pylyshenko, who entered the lions' enclosure on Tuesday, said
he plans to spend the next 35 days painting pictures of the lions, which
he will sell to raise money for new buildings.
The 40-year-old even intends to help a pregnant lioness give birth
during his time with the lions, the zoo said.
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"I hope that my attitude and the optimism with which I approach this
project will be understood by people," he said in a statement on the
zoo's website.
He told a local newspaper, Nash Gorod, that he planned to take showers
and use a toilet outside the enclosure but would sleep on a wooden
platform inside.
The private zoo in the town of Vasylivka in western Ukraine, around 500
kilometres from Kiev, has two lions, named Samson and Katya, living in a
bare enclosure.
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