Well, we never learn from any of these articles how many lions were there at the time of the mauling. If it was two lions only, and if one of those lions was in fact the lion from the circus, then, yes, there was a fifty-fifty chance that it was THE lion.
However, if there were more lions around that day, then the odds diminish for us that indeed that was the lion that was whisked away that fateful June night in front of us.
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