id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_i673woa4izhsdkankvqplsfa7i Kent Redford Exotic Aliens: The Lion and the Cheetah in India by Valmik Thapar, Romila Thapar & Yusuf Ansari (2013), 304 pp., Aleph Book Company, New Delhi, India. ISBN 978-9-382-27755-2 (hbk) GBP 26.50 2014 1 .pdf application/pdf 1238 74 68 Exotic Aliens: The Lion and the Cheetah in only lions currently occurring outside Africa. lions may not in fact be native to India but argument holds for Indian cheetahs. the natural history world and inspire people to to publicize the natural history of Indian researching 500 years of recorded tiger sightings. tigers recorded as killed per year there were fewer than a handful of lions and cheetahs. and history of cheetahs and lions in India. lions were imported from Africa and Persia, of the Indian royalty, who bred and propagated them as court symbols and for hunting. The desire for lions was also an import, the killing of a lion the ultimate sign of hand then lions had to be bred to be released Gir lions. Cheetahs were imported and trained southern and East African lions. So what if lions are not native to India? https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://www.cambridge.org/core ./cache/work_i673woa4izhsdkankvqplsfa7i.pdf ./txt/work_i673woa4izhsdkankvqplsfa7i.txt