NEW DELHI â Sheâs waiting for him, as she has been all her life. But when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi dined with Barack and Michelle Obama at a glittering banquet Sunday night, his wife wasnât by his side.
Often called the largest cat of all times, the American lion or Panthera atrox, is probably the best known of all prehistoric cats after Smilodon. It lived in both North and South America (from Alaska to Peru) during the Pleistocene epoch, and went extinct 11,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age.
Asiatic Lion. Conservation Status: Endangered. Scientific Name: Panthera leo persica. The Asiatic lion is a big cat and lion subspecies that can only be found in Gujarat, India. Other big cats that inhabit India include the clouded leopard, snow leopard, Indian leopard and Bengal tiger.