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Stuart Hogg bursts forward during the Lions’ clash with the Sigma Lions in Johannesburg on Saturday.

I went to the zoo last week. Maybe you can see where this is going. A delightful experience for the kids, as you’d expect. I, too, will never not find those monkeys with the bare arses delightfully amusing. I had forgotten how much wonder children can derive from seeing exotic animals for the first time, albeit in captivity.

The trip was not without its moments of comedy gold, either, albeit wholly unappreciated. Standing at the big cats enclosure, I became aware that a young family with two lads in Leinster jerseys were standing alongside me. Craning their necks to figure out was it the trunk of a tree or a sleeping lioness they were looking at, I lined them up like Shane Williams might a couple of front row forwards in midfield, and gave them the quipping version of a goose step: “Might be the only lions you’ll see this summer, lads.”