Camille is a female African lion (Panthera leo).   She's a little standoffish and grumbly / hissy, but not bad.  I had the few rare short opportunities to scritch her shoulder, it took a while before she'd let me do that.

As I started toward her enclosure, she sighed as if to say "Geez, here he comes with that camera again ... I hate that! ... hmm what can I do to make him go away?"

"Maybe if I go over there ... drat!  There's someone with a camera over there too"

"Ok, go to plan B ... perhaps if I chew on my toys and ignore him he will go away ..."

"Uck, he's still there ....."

"Grr!  OK, I'm going to bite on this toy so hard that I crunch it up, then will he leave??

(Notice here the tail flipping)

"Gad!  He's STILL there ... what is it gonna take?"