Based on the fact that the European race has always been captivated by animals not from their own region, and so, like all other things new to them, they place them into captivity, versus seeing "us" all in our natural state.
The lion in We Bought A Zoo was named Solomon.
Yes, there is a lion in the Ljubljana ZOO.
no there is not
The prepositional phrase is from the zoo.
From the zoo
lion
lion?
Lion
We went to the zoo and saw a Lion in a cage.
A lion roaring.
The lion's busy
a zoo keeper