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The lost big cats of Japan

A news story which has been disseminated today, may have provided an answer to a mild cryptological mystery which has intrigued me for many years. The provenance of the so-called “Indian lions“ of the Gir forest in Western India has been thrown into doubt by a book called Exotic Aliens by Valmik Thapar et al, but nobody has ever claimed that lions have been found east of the subcontinent. However, animals described as “lion dogs“ have been a major part of Chinese iconography for many years, and when I was a child in Hong Kong, I was told fairy stories about them. Indeed, there is a locally famous landmark in Hong Kong known as “lion rock“, which suggests that the people of the Orient were familiar with lions at some time.

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