While now restricted to a small range in indias Gir forest, the asiatic lion once had a larger broader range. Stretching across the coastal forests of northern Africa, northern Greece and other parts of southeastern Europe, to south-west Asia and eastern India.

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[u/Blissful_Canine]

Sources - https://wildcatconservation.org/wild-cats/africa/lion/asiatic-lion/#:~:text=The%20range%20of%20the%20Asiatic,west%20Asia%20to%20eastern%20India.

https://www.lionlandscapes.org/lion-range

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7891088/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oa.2875

https://www.theextinctions.com/articles-1/europe-part-iii-into-the-holocene

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lions-europe

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_species_extinct_in_the_Holocene

[u/Leprrkan]

Had no ides there are lions in Asia!

[u/gwaydms]

Years ago National Geographic ran a story called The Last Lions. That's when I learned.

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It's easy to forget that when those 4th century poets were writing epics about, for example Heracles slaying lions, that there were actual damn lions roaming the Greek countryside.

[u/SoupMaid]

why do lions and other big cats have those big squishy eyebrow nubs?

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[u/0123wm]

The lion has round balls of fur above each eye.

[u/Corgiotter1]

Are they the same as Numidian lions? (Extinct)