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In the opening it says "lions ranged throughout Africa, Eurasia, and North America". Africa, yes. Eurasia, ok. But North America? This would make sense if they still thought that Panthera Atrox(American lions) were a lion(panthera leo) subspecies. But we now know that they along with Eurasian cave lions(Panthera spelea) were distinct species that long diverged from modern lions. The species we know today only existed in Africa and part of Eurasia from Greece to southern Asia. Please fix this mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Profligate222 (talk • contribs) 02:54, 14 January 2021 (UTC) Lions are very pretty but people are ugly[reply]

Hey all. In the past years, the layout of this part about the lion subspecies has changed from list to table to list, and now back to table again. Imo, the list was the better solution. What do others think about this? -- BhagyaMani (talk) 09:25, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It should be a table to be consistent with the pages Leopard, Tiger in the genus. You can also see it in American black bear, Giraffe (previously featured), Cheetah. The table is structured which makes it easier for the reader to get the pennant data.--Cs california (talk) 09:25, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see the necessity for consistency with pages on other species, because: a) there are only 2 lion subspecies and resp. pages; but b) several leopard and cheetah subspecies and resp. pages that are linked, and c) several pages on tiger pops that are also linked. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 09:43, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I concur with BhagyaMani, the table is unnecessary and rather oversized, given that there are only two subspecies. If there were three or more, it might be warranted, but that is not the case. --SilverTiger12 (talk) 19:49, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Even if you don't have the table there should be an example image of both subspecies on the page somewhere --Cs california (talk) 00:30, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You apparently missed reading the part that lion subspecies do not look different from each other. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 06:36, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello everyone, here I found a book that mentions the fact that lions are the mammals with the highest percentage of skeletal muscle among all mammals. 58.8% (It is mentioned rounded up as 59%), 1.31 times more than the average mammal. It is on page 19.

Source:

-Calder, W. A. (1996). Size, function, and life history. Courier Corporation.

https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&lr=&id=-iBS6-2OO3wC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=Size,+function,+and+life+history&ots=CSR0pp2Ml9&sig=K8oavtJ_3iXLhKqihOxKCeI8sv4#v=onepage&q&f=false

I hope to hear from you. And I hope to see if you accept this information in the next edition.

Hello everyone, here I found a book that mentions the fact that lions are the mammals with the highest percentage of skeletal muscle among all mammals. 58.8% (It is mentioned rounded up as 59%), 1.31 times more than the average mammal. It is on page 19.

Source:

-Calder, W. A. (1996). Size, function, and life history. Courier Corporation.

https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&lr=&id=-iBS6-2OO3wC&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=Size,+function,+and+life+history&ots=CSR0pp2Ml9&sig=K8oavtJ_3iXLhKqihOxKCeI8sv4#v=onepage&q&f=false

I hope to hear from you. And I hope to see if you accept this information in the next edition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LeandroPucha (talk • contribs) 19:06, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I would like for the word "Antelope" to link to the antelope wiki page. Ejmayo15 (talk) 20:17, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Done ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 20:23, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]