Lions and Tigers in India

[GuateGojira]

Don't worry my friend.

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It is interesting to see that in the second intent, the lions in the area of the tigers simple dissapeared while those who manage to travel further, it is possible that they achieved to breed, proving that the introduction of lions by the Alexander the great and the Mughals is very possible, if they avoid areas with high tigers density and choosing different habitats.

In the case of Nepal, the lions were only one month in the wild before been killed, so the interaction between lion and tiger was ZERO. Besides, tigers in Chitwan avoid the open areas (Sunquist, 1981) where the domestic cattle live and this was the area that the lions occupied that month, proving also that lions and tigers don't live (they can't) in the same place.

These are ony three cases, but the path-breaking book of Thapar of 2013 describe many other events when old cultures imported lions to hunt them in the wild, and judging by the case of Gwalior, is very possible that some of them managed to breed.

If you read the previous scan that I post here, Divyabhanusinh (2005) states that there are not fossils from the Pleistocene nor even of the Holocene, of lions in Gir, suggesting a more recent introduction (artificial or natural).
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