Best Manes

[Rishi]

(04-23-2018, 03:50 AM)Spalea Wrote:

(04-23-2018, 01:39 AM)Polar Wrote: Seems to me that the more ancient Asian/Persian lions had the best manes...even more so in colder weather.

Yes probably, but the Cape lion and the Barbary lion were also told to have magnificent manes. Barbary lion because of the altitude within the chain Atlas. And what about Cape lion ? He was told to have the longest hair belly till the hind limbs...

(04-23-2018, 05:45 AM)Polar Wrote: Asian lions had the same belly mane before widespread hunting.

See how similar this "Barbary" is maned to the Asiatic in the next video. Comparing that Asiatic lion to its wild cousins, i'd say wild Barbarys looked equally different!

It's just not physiologically possible to have such mane & survive the barren North Africa, or Atlas Range...or Middle East.

As per contemporary documentation of natural history (the accurate ones) the Indian ones looked exactly same (#292) & only the Persian ones showed some winter adaptations (#301), but not like ^those two!

The painting & engravings point towards a modest look, like these modern generation of captive Asiatic lions in temperate countries, that probably get force-fed fewer nutritional supplements then their parents.

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And Barbarys were quite similar to them & their closest descendants still are (#46).

Cape lions too should have looked like modern South-African lion, many of whom even carry their blood. Reply