Well,most people think that lions only come fromAfrica.And you would be forgiven for thinkingthis,because in fact most lions do come fromAfrica.But this hasn't always been the case.If we goback ten thousand years we would find that therewere lions roaming vast sections of the globe.Butnow,unfortunately,only very small sections of thelions' former habitat remain.
My particular interest is Asiatic lions,which are asub-species of African lions.It's almost a hundredthousand years since the Asiatic lions split off anddeveloped as a sub-species.At one time Asiatic lion was living as far west as Greece and theywere found from there,in a band that spread east through various countries of the MiddleEast,all the way to India.In museums,you can now see Greek coins that have clear images of theAsiatic lion on them.