I'm not lion.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

We DON’T know it wasn’t the case. I’m simply pointing out that using an actual lion pelt for a costume isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

If the producers of the film had said, ‘We need a lion skin for a costume, let’s kill a lion’, I would object. If (as seems more likely, if only from a cost standpoint) they purchased a pelt or had one taking up space in the props department, what’s the harm?

Boru

Creating a market for lion pelts is as good a putting the rifle in the poacher's hands.

I really don’t think that MGM created a market for lion pelts. And - as much as I despise trophy hunting - not all lion kills are the work of poachers. Not now, and certainly not in 1939.

And you’re still assuming the lion was killed to make the costume. 

Boru