Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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@GrizzlyClaws :

About #287: clearly agree with you... We don't know directly how asiatic lions behave, within their diversity. There aren't written accounts about asiatic lions during the past centuries. But as concerns the artists and the paintings they realized about lion huntings, they did never painted "freely" without proof, but helped by oral descriptions, narratives. Thus we can perhaps, probably, conclude that lions benefited from a similar reputation to the tiger's one in terms of strength and bravery.

I don't like big-game hunting at all. Of any animal on Earth. But here, these paintings are projecting a popular vision about an almost extinct anima specy, and we enjoy only that in order to know how they were perceived. The extant asiatic lions being only a relic of what they were, they were almost eradicated (in a much more open living biotop, their gun hunting was unlucky much more easy than in the case of the tiger living in a much more dense jungle) .

We know too, thank to these paintings, they hunted big bovids (and perhaps not only bovid cattle). Reply