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> lions used to live in Greece

Lions didn’t disappear from Balkan Peninsula because of the harsh climate, people wiped out them.

I imagine the Romans wanted them for the Coliseum (or is it Colosseum? That's a whole rabbit hole I don't need to go down at the moment)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lions_in_Europe#His...

mostly hunted for sport well before the romans

For sport, before Rome existed? Not mostly hunted because they are direct competitors as apex predators? And because they threatened and killed children and livestock?

Greek myth is full of lions, they went extinct in historical times.

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