Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

[Rishi]

(04-27-2017, 10:36 AM)Spalea Wrote: I saw an asiatic lion at the "Tierpark zoo" of East Berlin exactly like in the last photo of the #272, but in the year 2000. But the case of the captive animals is different.

India have sent to 53 zoos in 50 years 

If one of two siblings is kept in an Asian zoo & the other in an European zoo, the former grow up to look like this...

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..& the latter like this.

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Almost ALL readily grows belly mane, flank mane is a bit rarer, even if the mane is shorter & bristly...Reminds you of artworks like this one from 1864.

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Now, whether these are due to effects of more-than-enough-food-plus-supplements, or some hidden-old-genes-gotten-a-chance-to-arise-in-cold-weather... 
I don't know for sure!!!

Because unlike South African canned lion for "hunts", which also sport flank & belly mane very often, THESE ARE NOT SELECTIVELY BRED TO LOOK LIKE THAT (Actually the inferior stock that are rescued from wild form the captive population. Capture of wild specimens is forbidden now).

I once wrote a similar post about this ( Size of Barbary lion ). Reply