Their hair coat is a little different. They tend to be thinner, not as heavy, they don’t in nature, they don’t behave as African lions do, but that may have been a function of what human interference was their habitats. And they were viewed as a threat to local communities because they weren’t so much, you know, as the horror movies like to say, man killers, they were livestock killers. And they were in competition with people who essentially had subsistent living and they were on the decrease. And so we made arrangements internationally to acquire animals, to begin to have at Lincoln Park, the first institution, a small family group of these animals, and to disperse offspring to other institutions in a cooperative management plan for this Asiatic form of lion, which was rapidly disappearing in its native habitat.
