Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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(10-05-2019, 10:54 AM)Rishi Wrote:

(10-04-2019, 10:36 PM)lionjaguar Wrote: Asiatic lions are smaller than African lions. What about lions lived in other Asia? Lions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, and other Asian countries. As far as I know, Iraq has swamp region name, Mesopotamian Marshes map. It  is similar to Okavango delta, Los Llanos, Sudd, and Pantanal. Or what about European lions lived in Greece or southern Balkan until Roman killed them all.

Well, I've read lions of Afghanistan & Balochistan being described by British officers as smaller, than the ones in Indo-Gangetic plains. 
I think they were about Gir lions in size & belonged to adjoining populations... The lions living up northeast may have become larger after coming in contact with tigers. Otherwise any lion's progeny weighing below 180kg would have eventually died out with time.

Also, those parts had much larger prey in higher numbers before being almost completely replaced by cultivated croplands in last 2 centuries. But bank them; imagine a grassland-forest mosaic of various height & density, like those remaining in Terai, sightly drier towards the south.

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So lions in central India were bigger than lions in Gujarat, Pakistan, and Afghanistan? Tigrs were still bigger than lions in Indo-Gangetic plains or central India?
I never heard lion record in Afghanistan. I thought lions in India and Pakistan were separated populations from lions in Iran, Iraq, and other Middle East. Reply