Signed in blue ink by Adrian Darley, known as Nick nyoka owner of Knaresborough Zoo and formerly of Colchester Zoo and GT Yarmouth.

Simba the largest lion ever in captivity once over and was in the film Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor

Nyoka died in 1995 and rumour has it that Simba is buried on the grounds of what was Knaresborough Zoo in north yorkshire