Can African and Asian lions interbreed?
Yes, African and Asian lions are the same species, Panthera leo. They’re only different subspecies. All lions, wherever they’re from, can therefore interbreed with each other and produce fertile young that are lions themselves, not hybrids. This is not the same as African and Asian elephants, which are different species. They don’t even share a genus – the African elephant is Loxodonta africana, whilst the Asian elephant is Elephas maximus.
