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Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos
Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos
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Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos
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King  *This image is copyright of its original author Hitesh Chauhan Asiatic liones in the hunting mood  *This image is copyright of its original author
(Maybe) Asiatic lion specimens present at the Natural History Museums of Jerusalem & Palestine.
Taxidermied Lions at the Natural History Museum in Al-Baq'a, Jerusalem, Palestine.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.pre...-1.5452921  *This image is copyright of its original author Another one...  *This image is copyright of its original author Male asiatic lion Ziv at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo in 2016 who came from Sweden in 2014 at age 3.  *This image is copyright of its original author ...after the male before him died. *This image is copyright of its original author
 (06-03-2019, 01:17 PM)Rishi Wrote: (Maybe) Asiatic lion specimens present at the Natural History Museums of Jerusalem & Palestine. What a coincidence. I just posted this (https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-barbary...6#pid82426), but anyway, I'm surprised by that diorama because I thought that in the Levant, lions had become extinct in the south (Israel cum Palestine) during the Crusades in the Middle Ages, but that they had survived in Syria in the north up to the late 19th Century, possibly as late as 1891 in the area of Aleppo (https://archive.org/stream/bookoflion191...arch/syria, https://archive.org/stream/journalofbomb...2/mode/2up, https://archive.org/stream/mammalsofsov2...0/mode/2up, https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=2126), as stated by Professor Khalaf-von-Jaffa himself (https://web.archive.org/web/200711121323..._Lion.html).
Solanki Vipul
 *This image is copyright of its original author Ishan Vora  *This image is copyright of its original author I am really happy to see asiatic lions looking strong and healthy as time goes by.
Spectral Lines
21 April  *This image is copyright of its original author Repost; same lion & sighting... *This image is copyright of its original author Younger male.. Vishal Gorad  *This image is copyright of its original author Jeet Trivedi 3 May  *This image is copyright of its original author
(05-13-2019, 10:43 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Iran wants to bring back the Asiatic lion to its wilderness, and it already has a male in captivity in Tehran Zoological Park, but considering what the situation is with the cheetah, I wonder how they'll manage? https://en.mehrnews.com/news/144891/Will...nce-pushed A female is set to join this male: https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/436578/...on-in-Iran
Gautam Dhakhada
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Maybe this has already been discussed in this thread but I was wondering if there were any lions in Africa that were genetically very similar? And if it has been discussed within India about introducing other lion DNA to make the Asiatic stock stronger? Also ... are there any plans to move some of the lions to other parks to prevent overcrowding? thank you
(06-10-2019, 03:34 AM)jordi6927 Wrote: Maybe this has already been discussed in this thread but I was wondering if there were any lions in Africa that were genetically very similar? And if it has been discussed within India about introducing other lion DNA to make the Asiatic stock stronger? Also ... are there any plans to move some of the lions to other parks to prevent overcrowding? thank you From the works of Barnett et al. (https://web.archive.org/web/200708081825...0lions.pdf, https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...017-1039-2), it appears that the closest African relative of the Asiatic lion is the Barbary lion of North Africa, which would make sense because it was this lion's range that was the closest to that of the Asiatic lion (which used to be in the Arabian Peninsula (https://archive.org/stream/naturalistsli...8/mode/2up, https://archive.org/stream/journalofbomb...2/mode/2up, https://books.google.com/books?id=TX7BmP...&q&f=false, https://books.google.com/books?id=GWslAA...on&f=false), connected to North Africa via the Sinai Peninsula): Otherwise, generally, the closest relatives of the Asiatic lions are the North and West African lions, and some lions in northern Central Africa and Northeast Africa (https://www.nature.com/articles/srep3080..._evolution):  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author which is why the Cat Specialist Group (Pages 71−73: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...sAllowed=y) recognised lions in Asia and North, West and Central Africa as belonging to the subspecies Panthera leo leo, which I refer to as the "Northern lion group" or "Northern lion subspecies" for simplicity, but as mentioned here (https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-north-e...ican-lions), a thing to beware of is that a number of Central African lions, as shown by the work of Bertola et al. (https://www.nature.com/articles/srep3080..._evolution) and Barnett et al. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...017-1039-2), are more closely related to Southern African lions (Panthera leo melanochaita as per the Cat Specialist Group) than to the Northern lion group, so not all Central African lions are of the Northern subspecies (Panthera leo leo), with a number of them apparently belonging to the Southern subspecies (Panthera leo melanochaita), and it seems that the 2 subspecies overlap in northern parts of East Africa, including Ethiopia, which is why the CSG put a question mark over this area in their map of lion subspecies in page 72: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...sAllowed=y *This image is copyright of its original author
Thanks for the responses ... thats a great genetic breakdown ... I hope that one day something will be done to strengthen the genetic stock of the Asiatic lions in India. .......... Im not sure what the hold up is with moving some to another park to relieve their population numbers but I hope the problem can be solved too ... there has to be a solution. But then again, it is an Asian country so solving conservation problems doesnt seem to be at the top of any of their lists.
(06-11-2019, 03:06 PM)jordi6927 Wrote: Thanks for the responses ... thats a great genetic breakdown ... I hope that one day something will be done to strengthen the genetic stock of the Asiatic lions in India. .......... Im not sure what the hold up is with moving some to another park to relieve their population numbers but I hope the problem can be solved too ... there has to be a solution. But then again, it is an Asian country so solving conservation problems doesnt seem to be at the top of any of their lists. Though Gujarat State has set up satellites of Gir Forest National Park, such as Devalia Safari Park (https://www.lonelyplanet.com/india/attra...137/356195),
The pressure should be on to relocate some of the lions ... people will always travel to see them ... they arent thinking sensibly.
(06-12-2019, 01:52 AM)jordi6927 Wrote: The pressure should be on to relocate some of the lions ... people will always travel to see them ... they arent thinking sensibly. Moving lions out of the Gujarat would be akin to banning ownership of automatic rifles in Texas... easier said then done. MP has to break the monopoly first by rewilding captive-bred lions & stop further begging, but exchange surplus lions for tigers in future. That's the only way... Abhishek Jadwani  *This image is copyright of its original author Sonali Dalal  *This image is copyright of its original author
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