> ...

 >  BM> IIRC, Clarence was a cross-eyed lion in a zoo, don't
 >  BM> remember which.  He was an older lion, and turned out to be
 >  BM> a prolific sire when he replaced a younger male that the
 >  BM> lionesses rebuffed.  Not fictitious.

 >  I think you are mixing your lions. Clarence the cross
 > eyed lion
 >  was on TV. The one in the zoo was real, but a
 > different lion.

I wasn't really sure, on afterthoughts.  I think they were contemporaries, though.

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