Asiatic Lion - Data, Pictures & Videos

[Rishi]

(07-17-2019, 10:52 AM)Spalea Wrote: The Gir lions showed by @sanjay search for the human zone in order to find something to eat or glean. As for the African lions you show @Rishi they are truly wild and don't seek at all the human settlements. But of course, they have learnt to know and fear the men and thus stay careful in front of them. Men and lions are watching each other, and in case of a man's false movement, the situation can very quickly be very problematic.

Yes, no doubt one side is much more accustomed to human presence, although i've learnt that they spend most of their times in habitat patches or groves & farmlands resembling natural vegetation.

Except unlike those African lions and like the sugarcane tigers of Terai, they really don't have a choice but to depends on cattle & occasional crop-raiding herbivores.
What I'm saying is, there's no way of knowing how those African lions' cousins would have behaved in similar landscapes, because they have been killed off in all similar landscapes.

The reason these ones survive is also the reason fear factor is lower on both sides. What it all boils down to is; they face no repercussions for their cattlelifting.
The locals keep all their old & male calves (which pastoral herders can afford, given the fodder is free) spread out beside & behind the main herd of breeding/milking females & calves, as lion fodder.

The system has downsides as we can all see, but as far as "losing their wildness" is concerned or that lion not charging one of those bikers, it may very well be counted as a behavioural adaptation crucial to the survival in human dominated landscape.
We know that African lion have been known to behave similarly on similar cases.

...so are tigers.

So do the hundreds of leopards that live in Greater-Gir landscape, otherwise infamous for causing most attacks on humans over rest of India.

Lastly I know I regularly say that these lions should be moved to any proper habitats available in the region, but how do we really relocate 400 lions? Reply