Posted on 07/11/2022 5:36:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The coastal areas of the western Indian state of Gujarat are now home to more than 100 lions. Experts say it shows that their natural habitat is shrinking.
The Gir forest in Gujarat - the only natural habitat of the Asiatic lion - had around 400 lions in 2020, according to a state forest department estimate. The rest of the state has around 275 lions, of which 104 have spread themselves across 300km (186 miles) of Gujarat's coastline.
Conservationists say the unusual movement is happening because the natural habitat of lions has become overcrowded.
"Normally, it is difficult for lions to adapt to a coastal habitat, but they have no option because of scarcity of land," Dr Nishith Dhariya, a wildlife scholar, says.
(Excerpt) Read more at coastalnewstoday.com ...
Someone’s lion.
The lion in the picture has double vision - he must live a tough life!
Lions are unreasonable.
With India having a population of 1.3 billion people, there is plenty for the lions to eat.
“He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach.” - The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway
Several years ago at the San Diego Zoo, the keeper puts a couple of fish into a small pond in the lion enclosure. She said they don’t usually fish in the wild, but they figure it out pretty quickly.
The female went into the shallow water. Wap,she caught one of the fish. The male grabbed it from her and trotted off. She went back into the water. Wap, she caught the other fish and everyone was happy.
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If I remember correctly, there’s a pride in Africa whose territory floods.They don’t look happy about it, but they’ll swim when they have to.
Inevitably this isn’t going to work out so well for the lions.
400 lions in one forest seems well, excessive. 😏
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