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Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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It is a wonderful thing observing asiatic lions improving in real time . All of those lions look in great shape.
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The landscape looks more like Africa. The ungulate also seems to be an African antelope. I think lions physical features also are not asian.
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(08-14-2020, 09:39 AM)Sanju Wrote:
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@Rishi 
The landscape looks more like Africa. The ungulate also seems to be an African antelope. I think lions physical features also are not asian.
Unlikely, the photographer is prety famous semi-professional & has only 1 Africa trip in 2018 & this photo is from 2015. As a source he's very reliable too.

I don't know how you can tell the rest by looking at the bushes & lion's butts, lol. But it's most likely a young chital male. The horn silhouette don't match with sambar.
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(08-14-2020, 10:26 AM)Rishi Wrote:
(08-14-2020, 09:39 AM)Sanju Wrote:
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@Rishi 
The landscape looks more like Africa. The ungulate also seems to be an African antelope. I think lions physical features also are not asian.
Unlikely, the photographer is prety famous semi-professional & has only 1 Africa trip in 2018 & this photo is from 2015. As a source he's very reliable too.

I don't know how you can tell the rest by looking at the bushes & lion's butts, lol. But it's most likely a young chital male. The horn silhouette don't match with sambar.
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the herbivore looks like a heartbeast..looks like an area in the masai mara seeing the types of trees,could tell those lionesses are african too even from that angle
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(08-14-2020, 05:25 PM)Rage2277 Wrote: looks like an area in the masai mara
Yeah exactly. Terrain is certainly not Gir and vegetation type is like African scrub-land.

(08-14-2020, 10:26 AM)Rishi Wrote: don't know how you can tell the rest by looking at the bushes & lion's butts, lol
Bushes ? yeah ! butts ? not at all !!! lol Laughing Laughing Laughing
The nape region similar to African lionesses. Its entirely my opinion not stating anything.
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(08-14-2020, 05:25 PM)Rage2277 Wrote: could tell those lionesses are african too even from that angle
(08-15-2020, 09:00 AM)Sanju Wrote: The nape region similar to African lionesses. Its entirely my opinion not stating anything.

Ok. I see.

Can you guys elaborate a bit?.. I'd like to be able to do it too :3
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I think if we observe close some of the trees in there belong to

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Ziziphus mucronata (buffalo thorn) native to south Africa.
I know we can't come to conclusion based on plant species looking similar.

I wish I could see a better zoomed image of that herbivore in the background, that will clear everything because no matter how hard I try Confused I cant see spots on that animal like a spotted deer !
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just a combination of different things,the tails ,coloration,the scenery,the antelope sealed it for me i thought it was a topi at first glance but they're much darker and i'm aware there are also heartbeast in that area aswell,that is without a doubt somewhere in the mara @Rishi
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I've gotta agree everything about that looks african, from the vegetation to the lions themselves. The herbivore looks like a red lechwe to me.
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I'm gonna give my two scents. The lionesses appear like African individuals to me just by looking at the dark coloration of their backs, the antelope looks more like lechwe as Sully said, hartebeest would have a longer face and smaller horns. But while I do think it's a lechwe I'm not 100% sure, it's hard to gage from the resolution of the picture.

EDIT: I think the antelope might actually be a hirola or some other related alcelaphine.
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