Were there literal lions in Westeros? I was thinking about the house sigils and was wondering how many of them are flora and fauna that actually exist and would be familiar to a Westerosi (falcons, bears, etc.), how many are stylized or symbolic versions of real things (none of the dragons actually have three heads), or mythological (I don’t recall griffins existing in this world). And if lions (not mountain lions) did exist in Westeros, could they live in the mountainous Westerlands?

Lions existed in the Westerlands as recently as Tytos Lannister’s day. 

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