As per recent reports, it has been revealed that Mujambi, the male lion at Adelaide Zoo, Australia, is gradually recovering well from surgery. Earlier the lion was operated following an incident in which the vets spotted that he was having some sort of supposed testicular cancer that could have been troublesome for the lion if not treated in the nick of time.

While expressing his opinion regarding the condition of the lion, along with giving estimates on the amount of time it is likely to take for him to get back to his roaring best, a senior vet at the Zoo, Ian Smith, claimed that they had identified some changes in the appetite of Mujambi around two months ago and therefore they decided to check his state of heath.

For the sake of inspection, the vets took blood samples of the lion and carried out a number on tests on it which resulted in highlight the fact that the lion was actually having high estrogen levels that were potentially due to some form of testicular cancer.

“Within the last sort of two, three months, Mujambi's been getting sort of more and more lethargic. He's been going off his food, and he's been intermittently vomiting as well”, Dr. Ian Smith added.

The 7-year-old lion weighs 160 kilogram. The doctors further revealed that he was only having one testicle descended at that point in time and his condition caused the vets to develop an impression that the heightened testicle of the lion might be having a tumour progressing inside.

Mujambi was then made to undergo surgery around five years back for the sake of detecting the “rogue testicle”, though the vets were not able to spot any then. However, the faulty state of his estrogen levels were raising concerns for vets that he may be suffering from cancer.

As a result, the lion was operated in a three-hour-long process yesterday Results of the high estrogen in Mujambi's results pointed towards a possible cancer in the ascended testicle, and the lion went in to surgery for three hours yesterday and the vets found the testicle and analyzed other organs for any sort of metastasize.