The real challenge is to unite all these lions under the Kingdom of León.
Ukraine didn't have any lions. And the Indo-Europeans may have appeared east of the Volga Delta.
anybody knowledgeable on Indian lion populations in the 1500s?
you would think that lions and tigers would certainly be incompatible with one another.
Well, you have other big cats beyond lions in Africa, that still works. (Though the lions will attempt to kill rival predators/their young.) In that regard, the tiger has an advantage over something like the cheetah. Like the cheetah, it should of course stay away from lion prides, but it stands a much better chance against a patrolling lone male lion. Such an encounter is not really that different from meeting another tiger.I for one would be fascinated to know- you would think that lions and tigers would certainly be incompatible with one another.
There were tigers in the caucasus until about the time the nazis invaded, the north side of which was in europe.
you know whats funny fact? Caspian tigers were just western subpopulation of Siberian tigers
To grossly oversimplify, tigers are woodlands cats, lions are on the plains.I'm not knowledgeable, but there were certainly lions across northern India into the period of British rule. Iirc, it was only from the 1870s onward that tiger hunting became popular, once all the lions had been wiped out.
It makes you wonder how an area like, say, Iran would have looked in terms of fauna in the time of Alexander the Great. Lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, bears, and wolves. How did all of this species interact with one another? I for one would be fascinated to know- you would think that lions and tigers would certainly be incompatible with one another.