Most of them are dated at around 500 B.C.However,Europe saw its last Asiatic lion roaming free two thousand years ago.Over the next nineteen hundred years the numbers of Asiatic lions in the other areas declined steadily,but it was only in the nineteenth century that they disappeared from everywhere but India.So,how can you tell an Asiatic lion from an African lion,with which you're probably more familiar?Well,in general,Asiatic lions are not as big as African lions.The colour is more or less the same,but the appearance of the mane is different - that's the hair around the lion's face and neck.The Asiatic lion's mane is noticeably shorter than the African lion's.Asiatic lions also have a long fold of skin on their undersides,whereas not many African lions have this.
