The size of the Barbary lion

[Matias]

Quote:@Wolverine 

Does anybody knows what was the quantity ratio between Barbary lions and Persian lions thrown in the Roman arenas?

I believe nothing is known about that. Knowing how to answer your pertinent question would provide a lot of cascading knowledge. Traders and their accounting records and Roman accounting books would be a good source for getting this information. These records have been lost and it seems to me that there is nothing in this respect in the literature; not even the Roman historians who portray the events inside the coliseum inform something to this effect.

In post 45 I presented some ideas, within a broader context.

Except for the emergence of new scientific studies, discoveries of new fossils or any new documentation that will enrich this theme, the largest size attributed to the Barbary lion is a myth.

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