Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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[Lycaon]

Excuse the stock image watermarks. 

A very cool looking male

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[Rishi]

The throne of thorn-forest!..

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[Spalea]

@Rishi :

About #762: really beautiful photos ! I like so much to see them in the heart of nature... Reply

[Lycaon]

Rishit Sheth‎

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[smedz]

I'm not "lion" when I say I've always found the relationship between these Lions and the local people interesting. Reply

[Lycaon]

Great to finally see asiatic lions with natural prey and not cattle. Reply

[Sanju]

Wow! that's a super rare incident and a super rare find. Hope some day we will watch Asiatic lion chasing, killing and feeding on wild Indian prey in one video with vigor like once Asiatic Lions and wish such high quality videos like from Africa will be available from kuno.  Good Job and Thanks. @Lycaon Reply

[Lycaon]

@Rishi 

the alert section shows I have been quoted but it does not appear.

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[Rishi]

(02-04-2019, 05:15 PM)Lycaon Wrote: Just a general question.

Why are there no quality videos of asiatic lions hunting nilgai and sambar deer .?

(02-11-2019, 07:53 PM)Lycaon Wrote: I still don't understand why there is not more high quality photos of asiatic lion!

That male is massive.

Same answer buddy!
They (& Gir) just don't get the India-wide attention that tigers do. That means a handful of some enthusiastic Gujaratis are doing most of the photography & that also is restricted at a small area of the national park. Compare it to an Tiger Reserve it off tourism spotlight, like Pilibhit & you'll find similarities.
Outside Gir, everything is amateur work by locals. That's why there are very less quality photos is of the lions spread over all of Greater Gir landscape, let alone footage of them hunting.

As far as hunts are concerned, most footages of tiger hunts are from only a few reserves at clearings with tall, dense grass that tigers prefer to hunt on, many were once crop fields of now-relocated villages & natural vegetation grew back.

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All of Gir on the other hand, is a hill complex. Doesn't really have rolling plains or lakeside meadows (like Ranthambore). Closest thing you'll see there would be barren hillocks with inches short grass or bushes.
Lions may relax there on winter mornings but not hunt. Ever seen a tiger hunt video from Sundarban?
Same reason... Lions find it easier to ambush prey in the thick forests.

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But there is better news.
Last year Gujarat govt had decided to enhance lion habitat / preybase in & outside protected areas.

Even before that, decision was taken to divert funds to developing proper grasslands, that once existed but were degraded by overgrazing as local population grew.
Forest department have been reviving huge tracts of barren wastelands by growing grass in massive quantity.

Their figures show that in the last 30 years average grass production in this region was 64.4 lakh kg per hectare. That has gone up 285% to 180 lakh kg per year in 2017-18.

With the new funds from Central govt. lots of the area will be back under grassland cover like some rare surviving patches like this;

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[Sanju]

@Lycaon it takes sometime for him (or anyone) to fully align and make reply perfectly ready to post until then alert section will be filled with notifications if the thread is subscribed or quoted. when it is posted then it'll be shown in latest replies column in wildfact index page. so until then have to wait. Reply

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@Rishi 

Thanks for the comprehensive reply. I hope everything turns out well for asiatic lions. Reply

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(02-20-2019, 08:00 PM)Rishi Wrote:

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All of Gir on the other hand, is a hill complex. Doesn't really have rolling plains or lakeside meadows (like Ranthambore). Closest thing you'll see there would be barren hillocks with inches short grass or bushes.
Lions may relax there on winter mornings but not hunt. Ever seen a tiger hunt video from Sundarban?
Same reason... Lions find it easier to ambush prey in the thick forests.

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But the is better news.
Last year Gujarat govt had decided to enhance lion habitat & preybase in & outside protected areas.

Even before that, decision was taken to divert funds to developing proper grasslands, that once existed but were degraded by overgrazing as local population grew.
Forest department have been reviving huge tracts of barren wastelands by growing grass in massive quantity.

Their figures show that in the last 30 years average grass production in this region was 64.4 lakh kg per hectare. That has gone up 285% to 180 lakh kg per year in 2017-18.

With the new funds from Central govt. lots of the area will be back under grassland cover like some rare surviving patches.

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I've also think the gir landscape looks very different from plains such as kuno or african savannas,where they evolved to hunt.Gir rather looks like plateau of rolling hills of grassland and scrub forest. The significance of these rolling hills over the plain landscape is that it (hills) creates large surface area comparing the aerial extent of landscape.it might be a reason that gir national park support high lion population with quite small normal area. 
Typical gir landscape:

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satellite view of gir:

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not only the gir region, several other hilly landscapes such as central india, western ghats have the advantage of large surface area unlike plains with the same aerial extent. Reply

[Lycaon]

Sohil Makvana

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Lioness with nilgai kill

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[Sanju]

5 months on, lions to be free

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Asiatic lions were isolated from Dalkhaniya range

Almost five months after they were captured, vaccinated against Canine Distemper Virus and kept under observation, 34 lions will be released into the wild soon. The big cats had been isolated from Dalkhaniya range after an outbreak of CDV claimed lives of 23 lions in Gir East.

After the outbreak of Canine Distemper Virus in Dalkhaniya range ended up killing several lions between September and December, the forest department rounded up 34 lions from Dalkhaniya and the surrounding range in Gir East to check for signs of infection. The lions were sent to rescue centres, given vaccines imported from the US and kept under observation.

Chief Conservator of Forest (Junagadh) D T Vasavada told Mirror, "The animals are healthy and fine. We are thinking of releasing them after getting the okay from veterinary doctors. We will also plan how and where to release rescued lions to ensure their safety."

Lions' carcasses started to surface in Gir National Forest area from September 12. By September 19, the toll had reached 11 and went further up to 23 by October 2. Meanwhile, the reports based on samples that were collected revealed that at least 11 were dead because of CDV. Several lions were tested positive for the highly contagious virus that has been blamed for recent lion deaths.

Meanwhile, the haze surrounding the deaths of Asiatic lions became thicker with the disappearance of two important reports from the website of the Indian Council of Medical Research.

The country's apex bio-medical research body had conducted tests on samples of 27 big cats, which showed that 21 of them were positive for CDV - a virus that wiped out 30 per cent of total population of lions in Serengeti forest areas in East Africa in the past. Following Mirror's report, the ICMR released the test reports on their website and recommended "Translocation".

https://ahmedabadmirror.indiatimes.com/a...086346.cms Reply