11 Facts About Asiatic lion

In 2017, the Asiatic lion was subsumed to P l leo due to close morphological and molecular genetic similarities with Barbary lion specimens.

Fossil Asiatic lion remains were found in Pleistocene deposits in West Bengal.

The Asiatic lion is genetically closer to North and West African lions than to the group comprising East and Southern African lions.

The most striking morphological character of the Asiatic lion is a longitudinal fold of skin running along its belly.

In 1841, English traveller Austen Henry Layard accompanied hunters in Khuzestan, Iran, and sighted a Asiatic lion which "had done much damage in the plain of Ram Hormuz, " before one of his companions killed it.

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In India, the Asiatic lion occurred in Sind, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Bihar and eastward as far as Palamau and Rewa, Madhya Pradesh in the early 19th century.

Since the mid 1990s, the Asiatic lion population has increased to an extent that by 2015, about a third resided outside the protected area.

Sanskrit word for 'Asiatic lion' is, which is a name of Shiva and signifies the Leo of the Zodiac.

The Asiatic lion plays a prominent role in The Fables of Pilpay that were translated into Persian, Greek and Hebrew languages between the 8th and 12th centuries.

The Asiatic lion is the symbol of Mahavira, the 24th and last Tirthankara in Jainism.

The Asiatic lion was an important symbol in Ancient Iraq and is depicted in a stone relief at Nineveh in the Mesopotamian Plain.