So I was like "do you see the disgruntled lion on the loading screen too?" to Nika and she was like "what" so I was like, and she was like, "no it's an evil clown see," so I was like well shit.
He's not disgruntled, he's eyeing the small piece of meat that the hand is taunting him with. (didn't outline the lion because I wouldn't be able to do it as nicely as yours, also I have never used this fancy attach feature before, huzzah!)
Pretty much this... every time I go to EK... there he is... and the lioness/tiger seems more pronounced (there isn't a mane, I can't really agree that it's a lion). Though it does appear to be shooting a Mario style fireball from its eyes!!!