Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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@Rishi :

About #421: The human predation is particular because the hunters always want to kill the most marvelous beasts in order to have the most beautiful trophies. So what are these '' most marvelous beast" among tigers and lions ? The males because of their bigger size and plus in the case of lions because of the mane. The nature, I am convinced about, reacts against this intensiv and excessiv predation by making the individual males less attractive, thus smaller size, less generous mane and so on. Among the elephants the tusks become smaller, the rhinos' horns smaller too and so on. The Siberian Tiger becoming smaller in size and weight than their India congeners.

In the "natural way", the animal predators at first kill the weakest prey in order to allow the safest and strongest to survive and reproduce, them and thus their genes.

The actual asiatic lions are the survivors of an intensiv slaughter which almost exterminated the whole specy in the beginning of the XXth century when only one or two dozen individuals remained. So, perhaps it' s not very amazing, IMO, that the male lions have not recovered their ancient full size. Before seeing the numerous photos you showed here, I believed the asiatic lion was a weakened specy, because their critical number during the 1910s was too low, thus big risk of consanguinity, birth of sick individuals. Thank to your photos and other ones, I' m convinced that this animal specy is "safe" but, perhaps, its "morphological recovery" is still in progress.

This is only an hypothesis. Reply