Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

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Quote:Once again, sumatran tigers are a completely different sub species with completely different DNA compared to Bengals and Amurs.
Like its already been proven, before Gir lions were almost hunted to Extinction NONE of ever come close to the size of their Genetically identical cousins, N. African Lions.
Which of course I posted the largest Gir Lions EVER hunted, recorded, caught etc.

Now you want to compare Leopards to Lions.
Ok, yes Lions are genetically closer to leopards, Jaguars and Cheetah while a tiger is a different cat.
Does that mean Lions are Leopards???
They are completely different animals and may have common ancestors but they are by no means, the same cat.
Lions are Lions. Your argument and example is inaccurate.

BTW, peters quote that Chaos used says nothing about whether or not gir are the same or different than N. african lions nor does it say anything about whether they are more or less capable in India. So its another meaningless example that is misquoted. Especially since we just went over that Lions are completely Genetically different than Tigers.

 
 

Ok, so use malayan, indochineese or chineese tigers instead of sumatrans. Are those tigers less successful than bengals?

North african lions (barbary): what was the size of barbary lions? I know, they were said to be huge, but actually we have no reliable data. We don´t know was the size of barbary lions. But what we know is that genetically closest relatives of asiatic lions are west african lions...who are around 170 kg.

I absolutely don´t want to compare lions to leopards. I used this example with leopards to demontrate the absurdity of your argumentation with bengal tigers. You missed the boat again (thanks Chaos).

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