Lions and Tigers in India

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In the chapter two of the book of Divyabhanusinh (An Oriental Patrimony) it is a great description of the hunting of lions in the east of Asia. He stated that ONLY the Egyptian worshiped the lion, Persia and Babylon don't. However, even this high place don't save them from the undiscriminated hunting. During the Babylonian times, the hunt of lions was a task only for the King, but latter in the Persian and other subsequent civilizations the pursuit of lions was relentless. Divyabhanusinh concluded that it took only 3,000 years of human domination of the environment to destroy Asia's lion. [img]images/smilies/sad.gif[/img]

Interestingly, Divyabhanusinh (2005) also stated that the old images and sculptures from the art of this time is the best form to learn about the morphology of the Asian lions, as they were amazingly accurate. It shows that they were not exceptional in size (smaller to medium size, compared with other African populations) and had great manes that in some cases run trough the belly, exactly like the Barbary lions. This support my theory that Barbary lions were of the same size than Indian and West-African lions.
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