We often see lions on the shields of European armies, but were

>>1957668

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.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lions_in_Europe

lazy

>>1957693
Map made me sad

>>1957695
eh, they got outmemed by the tigers in the subcontinent.

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>>1957693
>lions will go extinct within your lifetime

>>1957693
>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

They tried to copy the big alphas of ancient times, the Persians.

>>1957693
>lions BTFO

>>1957727

>predatory mammals BTFO

Fix'd and anthropocene'd

>>1957668
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

>>1957693
There were lions in Europe even in England and France during the paleolithic, but I don't know when they went extinct exactly

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>>1957668
>not using the objectively best lion statue in the world as an op

>>1957693
>you will never see european lions
Why live?

>>1957713
Hey, look on the bright side, we may be able to clone them at some point.

>>1957693
wtf I hate humans now

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>>1958090
>being stupid

>>1957693
Damn

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>>1958771
>not posting superior HD versions of the Lion of Lucerne

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>>1957668
I think the more important question is where all the horn horses went.

>>1958771
>>1959690

thats an honorary second, come on lads look at that pose, the majesty

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>>1959696
They went the way of the dragon.

>>1959720
>He dosn't know about the secret dragon cavalry

>>1957693
that's depressing