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About 77% of the captive lions registered in the International Species Information System in 2006 were of unknown origin; these animals might have carried genes that are extinct in the wild and may therefore be important to the maintenance of the overall genetic variability of the lion.
Lions were exterminated in Palamau by 1814, in Baroda State, Hariana and Ahmedabad district in the 1830s, in Kot Diji and Damoh district in the 1840s. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a British officer shot 300 lions. The last lions of Gwalior and Rewah were shot in the 1860s. One lion was killed near Allahabad in 1866. [57]
In 2006, 1258 captive lions were registered in the International Species Information System, including 13 individuals originating from Senegal to Cameroon, 115 from India and 970 with uncertain origin. [23] In addition, several lions kept in Ethiopia's Addis Ababa Zoo were thought to be genetically similar to wild lions from Cameroon and Chad ...
The Gir Forest in the State of Gujarat, India is the last natural habitat of more than 674 wild Asiatic lions, though plans are afoot to re-introduce some to Kuno National Park in the neighboring State of Madhya Pradesh to ensure their longterm survival against epidemics and natural calamities.
Cave lions became extinct around 14,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene. [7] During the early-middle Holocene (from around 8,000-6,000 years ago) modern lions colonised Southeast and parts of Central and Eastern Europe, [8] before becoming extinct in Europe likely during classical times [9] (or perhaps as late as the Middle Ages [8]).
Historically, the Asiatic lion and the Bengal tiger co-occurred in some Asian countries, and there are legends of male lions mating with tigresses in the wilderness, or of ligers existing there. [3] The two species' ranges are known to overlap in India's Gir National Park , though no ligers were known to live there until the modern era. [ 29 ]
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Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae.It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard and tiger, as well as a number of extinct species, including the cave lion and American lion.