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BhagyaMani thanks for your edits to the CITES sentence, however I don't entirely agree that reference to the CITES split listing of Lions should be removed from the taxobox section completely. I do agree that a ref tag is not the most appropriate way of doing this - thanks for pointing that out. I have substituted for a note instead. In my view, is it important to note the CITES status in the taxobox and given it is split listed it could be misleading to the reader to not refer here to the split listing. Hopefully your changes in the text body and this amendment will now make that clear for readers. Goldfinger00 (talk) 03:40, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

etymologically, lion comes from Old French lion which derives from Latin accusative LEONEM (nominative LEO) – it's important to explain this, as LEO does not sound like LION, while LEONEM (pronounced LEONE(nasalized E)) looks more like LION — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:F1:2F3F:B81:5DF4:D930:6A7A:CCC3 (talk) 13:07, 19 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting this! I've edited that sentence, and it now looks like this. Let me know if you'd like to see changes made to that. – Uanfala (talk) 00:12, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It says in the opening paragraph that the cause of the decline in lion populations is "not fully understood". Why does it say that, even though it is obvious that poaching by humans is causing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Flossingjonah (talk • contribs) 00:19, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't find anything regarding the following statement in the source mentioned: "In Africa, the range of the lion originally spanned most of the central African rainforest zone and the Sahara desert."

Maybe the sentence is meant to be the following, because that source particularly asserts the exact opposite: "The range of the lion originally spanned most of Africa except the central African rainforest zone and the Sahara desert." 82.222.98.119 (talk) 20:37, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The weight range of the west African lion population should be mentioned in the chart as well. They're a distinct population with their unique physical characteristics. I don't know why lion and other big cat populations (former subspecies) pages were deleted since Tiger pages are still kept. The draft of the West Africam Lion page still available? Ishan87 (talk) 04:54, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion about which subpages to keep and which to merge took place about 3 years ago. Look up the respective talkpages and their archives. – BhagyaMani (talk) 08:26, 9 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ishan87, please stop edit warring. Hayward and Kerley (2005) is a comprehensive literature review of studies on the ion's diet. It states "Gemsbok, buffalo, wildebeest, giraffe and zebra are significantly preferred." Later in the article, there is a bar chart, and these five animals have black bars which mean "species taken significantly more frequently than expected based on their availability". The impala's bar is unfilled, which means "species taken significantly less frequently than expected based on their availability". The kudu's is grey, meaning "species taken in accordance with their relative abundance". In other words, nothing special. LittleJerry (talk) 22:20, 10 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]