We often see lions on the shields of European armies, but were there lions in Europe?
We often see lions on the shields of European armies, but were there lions in Europe?
Landon Roberts
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Blake Fisher
There were on Greece, but they already were a memory of the past back in the Ancient World.
Lions on European heraldy had more to do with bestiaries and Bible.
Kevin Powell
Henry Gray
Map made me sad
Jonathan Roberts
eh, they got outmemed by the tigers in the subcontinent.
Elijah Gray
>lions will go extinct within your lifetime
Owen Wilson
>small pockets will go extinct without a doubt because of demographic collapse (inbreeding) while bigger ones shrink and suffer the same fate
feels bad man, especially those lions in India
Landon Wood
They tried to copy the big alphas of ancient times, the Persians.
Colton Davis
>lions BTFO
John Phillips
>predatory mammals BTFO
Fix'd and anthropocene'd
Samuel Mitchell
Yes there were lions in Greece untill at least like 100 bc so for most of Greek antiquity, probably in the Balkans too, there were also lions in the caucasus for a long time
There were lions in Europe even in England and France during the paleolithic, but I don't know when they went extinct exactly
Luke Phillips
>not using the objectively best lion statue in the world as an op
Oliver Brooks
>you will never see european lions
Why live?
Christopher Butler
Hey, look on the bright side, we may be able to clone them at some point.
Jordan Bailey
wtf I hate humans now
Easton Watson
>being stupid
Michael Mitchell
Damn
Cameron Clark
>not posting superior HD versions of the Lion of Lucerne
Nathan Brown
I think the more important question is where all the horn horses went.
Jackson Morgan
thats an honorary second, come on lads look at that pose, the majesty
Bentley Rogers
They went the way of the dragon.
Logan Sullivan
>He dosn't know about the secret dragon cavalry
John Turner
that's depressing