If you want to take your love and knowledge of lions even further, are you aware of Linda Tucker's book

Mystery of the White Lions: Children of the Sun God? That would take you to some strange places.

You don't have to read this and could go straight for the book, but I've written about her in this article:

https://graham-pemberton.medium.com/skeptical-scientists-and-the-paranormal-part-4-linda-tucker-and-the-white-lions-e5212786f092