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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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   (08-20-2018, 10:12 AM)Spalea Wrote: @Rage2277 : The tourism zone of Gir is about 1/5th the net area. Only a few hundred sq.kms on south-western part of the sanctuary with eight designated routes. You can't go off-road... www.team-bhp.com/forum/travelogues/134530.html  *This image is copyright of its original author Thus most of the lions seen & photographed on safari are residents (or transients) of a small area.
@Rishi :
About #498: OK, agree... Nevertheless that seems difficult to believe that such a 5-6-7 years old lion has never been spotted only once before . A male lion is a big beast, even well camouflaged, forced to daily cover its territory... But well ! That's fine ! Because that means that an iconic animal is always able to remain unknown and out of sight, and this, inside a medium-sized animal sanctuary (compared to the African ones such as Serengeti, Tsavo, Selous, Kruger and so on).
@Spalea
This is that male from post #487.  *This image is copyright of its original author First pictures of him surfaced in July & within a month we have his video too... This guy is at his prime. Maybe he has recently come from off-limits area & won a territory in tourism zone. Hopefully we'll see more of him in the following years!  (08-20-2018, 02:49 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Rishi : Selous Contains 7,600 lions (estimated) and the Serengeti contains 3,600 (estimated) Think about how many lions that we actually know about and are ID'd? There are so many Lions and Tigers that we will never know about, see or ID and that is the way it should be, but unfortunately it is becoming less and less the case.
@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 ! (08-21-2018, 12:31 AM)Spalea Wrote: @Pckts :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.
Veteran males Nagraj (left) & Bado (right). The latter died in May, this was his last sighting.
©Saleem I. Bloch  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
  *This image is copyright of its original author "King On Green Carpet"Gir National Park Vicky Patel An Asiatic lion was being followed by her young cubs when suddenly she turned around and realised that there were not there. The lioness went from a relaxed state to being alert in an instant and for good reason. Male lions are known to kill cubs so as to bring the female into oestrus so he can mate with her and have cubs that will carry his genes. Its brutal but its nature. After frantically searching for her cubs and calling out to them the cubs appeared, they had wandered off in another direction. A few moments later they made their way through the thicket not to be seen for the rest of game drive. Photographer :@arjunanandphoto (05-16-2014, 05:14 AM)peter Wrote: 1 - CAPTIVE ADULT MALE INDIA @johnny rex this one? |
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