Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

[Ravisingh]

(09-06-2016, 10:01 PM)Pckts Wrote: If you read through the whole thread you should be able to get some answers to the questions you're asking.

I used to agree with valmik but probably not so much anymore. I have pretty much defended lions in being as adaptable as any big cat. (See the Congo lion thread)

But still, the lack of hunting records or stories of Asiatic lions being hunted compared to tigers from times past beg some questions. 
Why aren't they as documented nor as many individuals measured? 

In regards to tigers of the Sunderbans, let's remove the fact that they live in the largest mangrove system in the world and suffer massive amounts of deforestation, tigers show a much wider variety of size throughout sub species compared to lions which generally don't have such size disparities between subspecies.

simply coz record keeping culture was bought in india by britishers . prior to that there were very almost no such records of animal sizes and appearence were kept by hindu aur mugals. but by the time britishers came to india lions were already very few left and were also killed within some years after british colonisations as they we most easy to find and hunt many in a single day. record of those lions were kept as mentioned by apollo in his reply.then came the tiger and finding it in dense jungles and killing one by one and keeping a long term record . what you call records are of recent history of india that is late mugal and british period when tiger was the only option to track and hunt after quick demise of lions from plains.
in ancient culture of india lion has always dominated tiger
just because they were abundent in open and tiger sighting were rare.
see national emblem of india which has four heads of lions taken from maurya empires king ashoka. Reply