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Stephanie J Lahey, PhD Aug 3, 2024

#Caturday #NotALion in a Book of Hours from Cambridge University Library. #MedievalManuscripts
@bookhistodons @medievodons @histodons

itsveganjim Jul 6, 2024

#notalion #zebra #herbivore #vegan

Stephanie J Lahey, PhD Jun 1, 2024

A #Caturday #NotALion in one of the #MedievalManuscripts of Pembroke College, Cambridge (now held at Cambridge University Library). #Manuscripts #Critters #MedievalAnimals
@bookhistodons @medievodons @histodons

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New-Cleckit Dominie Aug 26, 2023

@thisismyglasgow There used to be a #NotALion hashtag on Twitter which was a wonderful repository of lions sculpted or drawn by people who were really not very good at lions.

llewelly Jul 20, 2023

@TetZoo has a short article up arguing the Kleinmachnow animal looks an awful lot like a boar, and boar are common in that part of Germany. Much more likely than a lion. I will confess to hoping it turns out to be a bear, but it looks more like a boar than a bear, and a bear would need to be wandering far afield.
So it's probably a boar.
https://tetzoo.com/blog/2023/7/20/kleinmachnow-lion-not-a-lion

@LordGeekington , I'm wondering what you think.

#boar
#notALion

The Kleinmachnow Lion is Definitely Not a Lion — Tetrapod Zoology

Over the past day (20th July 2023), social media accounts have been sharing a brief snippet of mobile phone footage purporting to show a lion (specifically, a lioness) walking at the edge of woodland in the Berlin suburb of Kleinmachnow…

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Ulrike Wuttke (moderator) 🇺🇦Jul 20, 2023

Heute ist es genau der richtige Tag - scheint mir an den medieval hashtag #NotALion zu erinnern 🦁 #histodon https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2019/07/st-jerome-and-the-lion.html

Jerome and the lion

Everyone loves a picture of a medieval lion. The Twitter hashtag #notalion celebrates how amusingly unrealistic they often look, frequently resembling cuddly housecats more than the king of beasts. In medieval manuscripts, lions are found not only in bestiaries but also in illuminated bibles and other religious works, and sometimes...

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Aeronaute Mar 31, 2023

@aaronm Body and face shapes here are really similar. I think what you might be going with are the head curls and the somewhat glum expression, reminiscent of the cowardly lion in the movie version of The Wizard of Oz. Which I'd also classify as #NotALion.

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Aeronaute Mar 30, 2023

@aaronm I think they're both #NotALion . I'm not seeing a #KindALion there, at all.