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Mockery?
I am simply asking for the results of the study which you are claiming disproves the twitter post.

Here is the Serengetti research from Packer
"Males with darker manes had higher testosterone levels,"
"Thus the lion’s mane appears to be a sexually selected signal by which a male advertises his quality to other lions. Our study also highlights the importance of temperature to lion ecology and behavior—which will become increasingly relevant in the face of global climate change: the Serengeti lions are already developing lighter and shorter manes than in the past. These findings were presented by Science magazine in a paper entitled “Sexual Selection, Temperature and the Lion’s Mane” by Peyton West and Craig Packer."


http://lionresearch.org/
Read the entire article under "mane research"
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