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I see your point and like the Revelation 5/Genesis 49 typology.

However, Lions are food for many Africans. They are legally grown and hunted not only for trophies, but also for food. When a lion is killed in Africa, a village eats. This goes along with what Jesus told Peter in Acts...

Acts 10: 9 On the morrow, as they went on their journey , and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: 10 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten : but while they made ready , he fell into a trance, 11 And saw heaven opened , and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 12 Wherein * were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. 13 And there came a voice to him, Rise , Peter; kill , and eat. 14 But Peter said , Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. 15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed , that call not thou common.