1. Highly mobile creatures with remarkable exploratory behaviour, the modern tiger Panthera tigris and the modern Asiatic lion Panthera leo persica colonised Eurasia during the Late Pleistocene (from 126000 ± 5000 to 11700 years before present, BP) and the Holocene (from 11700 BP to the present day). Their respective ranges have overlapped several times but we tend to ignore the extent to which they have really coexisted because this situation has not occurred in recent times.
2. We provide a state‐of‐the‐art review of all the data covering their chronological distribution, in order to evaluate the extent to which they have coexisted. We include new data from petroglyph analysis in Central Asia.
3. The data set covers two major biogeographical regions: the Palearctic Biogeographic Realm (western Asia and Central Asia) and the Indo‐Malaysian Biogeographic Realm in Monsoon Asia.
4. Lions and tigers shared space with a large variety of medium‐sized carnivores. We can hypothesise that, due to the plentiful prey and the diversity in habitats within their common range, they lived in sympatry there during the Holocene (although in local allopatry), as long as human interference was low.
5. The Indo‐Malaysian Biogeographic Realm offered the best habitats for coexistence due to the tropical climate, the variety of habitats, and the great diversity in prey. In temperate Asia, the carrying capacity was naturally lower due to cold winters and dry summers, except along the coasts. Suitable habitats were limited, in Central Asia, to the tugais of the alluvial valleys and the adjacent steppes. In this region, lions were particularly sensitive to stresses, due to their low adaptability to harsh winters, the long distance to their main population sources, and the likelihood that they were pushed into the steppes by tigers, where they were killed by humans, for symbolic or pragmatic reasons.

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美洲虎和亚洲狮虎的时间分布在亚洲范围内

1. 具有高度探索性的高度活动的生物，现代虎Panthera tigris和现代亚洲狮Panthera leo persica在晚更新世（从BP的126000±5000到11700年，现在的BP）和全新世（从11700 BP到现在）定居于欧亚大陆。天）。它们各自的范围已经重叠了好几次，但是我们倾向于忽略它们真正共存的程度，因为这种情况最近没有发生过。
2. 我们对涵盖其时间分布的所有数据进行了最先进的审查，以评估它们共存的程度。我们包括来自中亚岩画分析的新数据。
3. 数据集涵盖两个主要的生物地理区域：古生物地理领域（西亚和中亚）和季风亚洲的印度－马来西亚生物地理领域。
4. 狮子和老虎与各种中型食肉动物共享空间。我们可以假设，由于人类的干扰很低，由于猎物丰富且栖息地在其共同范围内的多样性，它们在全新世期间（尽管在局部异相岩中）生活在该地区的象征性生活中。
5. 由于热带气候，栖息地的多样性以及猎物的多样性，印度－马来西亚生物地理领域为共存提供了最佳的栖息地。在亚洲温带地区，除了沿海地区，冬季寒冷和夏季干燥，因此承载能力自然降低。在中亚，合适的栖息地仅限于冲积河谷和邻近草原的河岸。在该地区，狮子对压力特别敏感，原因是它们对严冬的适应性差，与主要种群来源的距离较远，并且有可能被老虎推入草原，被老虎杀死，从而被人类杀死。象征性或务实的原因。