When Ah Lan the lioness, who is in the newspapers almost as often as elephant Lin Wang, was unable to provide enough milk for her newborn cubin 1965, and after cow's milk was found to make the cub sick, the call went out for a wet nurse.
上報率僅次於大象林旺的獅子阿蘭，在民國五十四年生子後奶水不足，小獅子喝牛奶又拉肚子，動物園只好公開徵求「奶媽」，最後一隻母狗中選。