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After being chained to the back of a pickup truck amidst rusty circus equipment for two decades, Mufasa the mountain lion finally regained his freedom. This emotional moment of Mufasa being freed by wildlife activists and returned to the Peruvian forest was captured on film.A rusty pickup truck is no place for any living creature to spend days and nights in. So, imagine living chained up in a rusty steel truck with no room to move, zero privacy, and constantly being subjected to the whims of others.