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Most of them are dated at around 500 B.C.
它們中的大部分都能追溯到公元前500年左右。
However,Europe saw its last Asiatic lion roaming free two thousand years ago.
然而，距最后一只亞洲獅活躍在歐洲大陸已是2000年前的事了。
Over the next nineteen hundred years the numbers of Asiatic lions in the other areas declined steadily,
在接下來的1900年里，亞洲獅在其它地區的數量一直穩步下降。
but it was only in the nineteenth century that they disappeared from everywhere but India.
但是直到19世紀，它們才從印度以外的其它地方徹底消失。
So,how can you tell an Asiatic lion from an African lion,with which you're probably more familiar?
那么，你如何才能從熟悉的非洲獅中識別出亞洲獅呢？
Well,in general,Asiatic lions are not as big as African lions.
通常，亞洲獅的體型沒有非洲獅那樣大。
The colour is more or less the same,but the appearance of the mane is different - that's the hair around the lion's face and neck.
它們的顏色差不多一樣，但是他們臉部和頸部的鬃毛有所不同。
The Asiatic lion's mane is noticeably shorter than the African lion's.
亞洲獅的鬃毛比非洲獅的鬃毛明顯要短。
Asiatic lions also have a long fold of skin on their undersides,whereas not many African lions have this.
亞洲獅的腹部有長長的皺褶，但是大部分非洲獅沒有。
