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(01-25-2016, 03:57 AM)tigerluver Wrote: Reading that excerpt, it seems the villagers were simply referring to captive lions, maybe who had escaped? Gir lion don't have black manes from memory.
The Asiatic lions could grow with thick dark mane when living in the colder climate, since they are closely related to the Barbary lions.
Even the African lions can convergently develop this morphology.