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(10-15-2019, 02:33 AM)lionjaguar Wrote: Divyabhanusinh ever written about lions in the central India and how did they go extinct in the Middle East? In the end, your conclusion on lions lived in the central India is just an opinion. No one will ever know. We could guess that they were bigger than Gir's lions since it had larger prey.
About Divyabhanusinh, he just mention that hunting was the reason, he don't go into details but the information that he used is very especific. Also the book of Valmik Thapar "Exotic Aliens" is a good source, and although his conclution that lions at India came from Mozambique is completelly incorrect, is a good source about all the hunting records and how the lion vanished from many parts of India.
My biggest question was why did the lion die out in the Middle East. My Moroccan friend said Barbary lions were extinct by French military during the 19th century. I believe lions would still have gone extinct even if they survived in North Africa. I think the case of the Middle East was more complex.