Zoos, Circuses, Safaris: A Gallery of Captivity

[Rishi]

(09-27-2020, 08:11 PM)Lycaon Wrote: @Rishi 

Well in the summer tehran or at least warm.

Eh.. That goes for most of Europe.

I actually have a theory why Asiatic lions & Caspian Tiger oth have the most prominent belly folds... You see Central Asia is kinda extreme. Most of the regions have either extremely hot semi-arid climate, or directly adjoining cool-summer-cold-winter mountain ranges.

Winter satellite image;

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That means a tiger/lion may need to bulk up with subcutaneous fat all its life. While it's progeny might move away a few kilometres & spend its life in hot region never needing to... But its children in turn might have to do so again.

That would explain this adaptation where they have much larger loose skins, that hands below as flap, which may or may not fill up with fat as per life requirements. Asian lions look right at home in snow.


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