Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

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(08-21-2018, 12:31 AM)Spalea Wrote: @Pckts :

About #502:

Agree with you but If we want to compare the area of these animals sanctuary with their lions population:

Selous park: 50.000 square kilometers namely one lion each 6,58 sq km
Serengeti and Masai Mara: 16570 sq km so one lion each 4,6 sq km.

and Gir national park: 1412 sq km so one lion each 2,17 sq km (650 lions nowaday).

And when we state that each spotted lion or tiger on the side of the road in India is quickly surrounded by 5 to 20 vehicles, I think it's a small miracle that this lion was never seen and known before. But it's very good !

You must also take into account the accessibility of the parks, Selous for instance is much more wooded compared to the Serengeti, spotting Lions there is much harder, that is also why you see very few Lion photos from there, even in the Serengeti, it's not easy to see lions, most guides can't even name which lion is which and seeing the same lions twice is difficult. Also remember that the roads make up an extremely small % of the park it self and you're not allowed to travel on anything else you also can only search during the day.

Remember that every park tourists travel too only allocate a very, very small % to the Tourism zone the rest of the land is unmolested and monitored by game wardens only or not at all.
Traveling too Kanha for instance, driving through the freeway you see a massive expanse of trees in every direction, there are no roads that cut through this scenery, its just trees as far as the eye can see. Imagine what wildlife lives there, the stories that play out, etc.
It's why we can only estimate a number of Cats, there is no way to know for sure they must use the little information they can gather to try and extrapolate that in a scientific way. Reply