Selby is a lion who craves to have ketchup on his food
but does not know how to tell anyone about that, since he does not speak anything but lion.
Matt, the Zoo Keeper, cares about all the animals in the Lonesome Valley Zoo and wants very much to keep them happy. When he sees that Selby is sad and not eating, he begins to seek to find out just what the problem is and how it can be solved.