Primates and Predator Interactions

[Pckts]

On your map, lions have lived in every section other than the central lowland forest.
There is a limit, this is not debated. No 200+kg non tree climbing predator can survive if it doesn't have room to move. This was never the debate, it only was "do lions live in the forests of the Congo" which they do, have done and hopefully will do more frequently. But look at the places they used to inhabit, all dense forest but with massive human presence and deforestation. The Congo also is extremely war torn and not easily studied.

@Spalea
They attributed the hybrid claims to the Bili ape and there are still accounts of the "grey hybrid ape" like the famous ones from the movie Congo. But of course you should take those claims with a grain of salt. Reply