Further into the future, the museum envisages such projects as researching the many beasts used in China to ward off evil whose features are hard to distinguish from those of stone lions; they include the gluttonous taotie monster. Should they be categorized as lions too?
更遠的工作，如考據中國早期存在的許多辟邪動物、甚至饕餮與石獅面貌難辨，是否能被歸為獅子？