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Is it possible it was just an escaped lion? Has a lion ever lived in the wild in France?

• Apocryphon 2y ago
  Maybe some wigbrained aristocrat got one for his menagerie. Alternatively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_cat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_cat
• dieselgate 2y ago
  The article mentions that under hypotheses. Not sure if sibling comment is being tongue in cheek but the article mentions menageries specifically
• BoingBoomTschak 2y ago
  Quoting myself from a few months ago: French here, never heard of any connection with werewolves. Only that it was either an immense wolf or possibly a hyena brought who-knows-how from Africa. Note from a dive in the rabbit hole of the French Wikipedia page: it seems it was truly a wolf which was - according to its autopsy - 1m long "from the base of its tail to the top of its head" and weighed more than 50kg.
  • sandworm101 2y ago
    50kg is big, but not a monster wolf. Go to any zoo or sanctuary and you will see grey wolves that size. Some places will let you pet them. Imho the more likely candidate is a wolf-dog hybrid as they can be considerably larger than either parent.
• croisillon 2y ago
  many lions lived in France when France occupied Africa ;)