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> lions used to live in Greece Lions didn’t disappear from Balkan Peninsula because of the harsh climate, people wiped out them.

• zeristor 7y ago
  I imagine the Romans wanted them for the Coliseum (or is it Colosseum? That's a whole rabbit hole I don't need to go down at the moment) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lions_in_Europe#Historic_range_of_Panthera_leo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lions_in_Europe#His...
  • buboard 7y ago
    mostly hunted for sport well before the romans
    • npongratz 7y ago
      For sport, before Rome existed? Not mostly hunted because they are direct competitors as apex predators? And because they threatened and killed children and livestock?
• HelloNurse 7y ago
  Greek myth is full of lions, they went extinct in historical times.