Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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The Asiatic lion was first described by the Austrian zoologist Johann N. Meyer under the trinomen Felis leo persicus.

In 2017, the Asiatic lion was subsumed to Panthera leo leo due to close morphological and molecular genetic similarities with Barbary, west and central lion specimens.

Its historical range included eastern Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Mesopotamia, and from east of the Indus River in the former Sind Province to Bengal and Narmada River in Central India.

The Asiatic lion used to live in Eastern Europe (south), West, Central and South Asia in historic times.

It also occurred in Arabia, Palestine, Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Baluchistan (Pakistan). Heavy hunting by British colonial officers and Indian rulers led to a steady and marked decline of lion numbers in India.

• Lions were exterminated in Palamau by 1814, in Baroda, Hariana and Ahmedabad district in the 1830s, in Kot Diji and Damoh in the 1840s.
  

• During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a British officer shot 300 lions.
  

• The last lions of Gwalior and Rewah were shot in the 1860s.
  

• One lion was killed near Allahabad in 1866.
  

• The last lion of Mount Abu in Rajasthan was spotted in 1872.
  

• By the late 1870s, lions were extinct in Rajastan.
  

• By 1880, no lion survived in Guna, Deesa and Palanpur, and
  

• Only about a dozen lions were left in Junagadh district.
  

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