Beasts of the Roman Games

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I have saw this documentary years ago, in Discovery Channel. It is very interesting, with facts like that lion was the most popular animal and cost like the salary of a soldier for one year, the next popular was the elephant, both Africans and they were famous long before they even began to export tigers and rhinos from India and Hyrcania (Caspian region).

They also explained how it works the mechanisms of the Coliseum, that the animal-vs-animal fights were in the morning, and that in the middle day you could lunch, sometimes for free, and at the same time you could see how specially trained leopards killed thief and other prisoners in the arena, a good show, for that people at least.

Other thing that I remember, almost 50% of the animals that were transported to Rome died in the travel, mostly because of the stress caused for been taken in cages that were in completely darkness. It is also interesting that there were over 1,000 lions transported at once to Rome, showing that in the old days it was perfectly possible to take large animal populations (this is over 3 times the population of lions in Gir!).

Finally, if you are waiting a word about lion-vs-tiger, sorry, but they don't mentioned anything about this, except that people had they favorite animals, but that is all.
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