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"They tend to be solitary, except for when they are mating or have young offspring. Occasionally we see a whole family. In March we were fortunate to have a sighting of a male, female and four large cubs, but later sightings showed that the male had moved away.
The lions survive mainly on the plentiful forest Menelik’s Bushbuck or bush-pigs, and they ambush their prey from forest tracks – hence their solitary nature. They are also unscathed, as they do not have to fight for territory and their loud bellowing reverberates through the forest at night, a powerful roar so different from the lazy MGM movie lion! ‘Lion season’ starts in March and lasts until October. Locals say that the lions come out of the forest to dry off when the sun comes out" As one would imagine the social structure is drastically different from those on the plains given the stark contrast in climate, with these changes making them socially akin to the Gir lions. http://whatsoutomni.com/the-abyssinian-b...s-of-bale/  (08-05-2019, 04:02 PM)Lycaon Wrote: Short but sweet video Harenna Forest is in the vicinity of Bale Mountains National Park, where that lion was seen, National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/an...video.aspx  *This image is copyright of its original author
 (07-11-2017, 12:08 AM)Sully Wrote: Beautiful Ethiopian lion (most likely of mountain origin) in an Ethiopian zoo in Addis Ababa. For the fuller story on the genetic makeup of the Addis Ababa lions, please see this: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-north-e...3#pid89303  (07-05-2017, 12:22 AM)Sully Wrote: Some beautiful images of lions in much denser and tropical climates than their counterparts only within a radius of a few miles. As you can see their fur is darker and thicker than savannah lions, due to the colder, damper mountain forests where they reside. All the best photos (1st post) are gone because of direct linking. I think the source site was taken down... Are you by any chance still holding on to copies of those images?
Unfortunately not. The last series of images is from a video already posted in this thread but I think @The Panther may have the others as I got the images originally from his google+ post.
 (10-10-2019, 12:49 PM)Rishi Wrote:@Sully thanks for the mention.(07-05-2017, 12:22 AM)Sully Wrote: Some beautiful images of lions in much denser and tropical climates than their counterparts only within a radius of a few miles. As you can see their fur is darker and thicker than savannah lions, due to the colder, damper mountain forests where they reside. These might be the images Sully posted but I'm not too sure, it's been a long time since I posted some of these myself.  *This image is copyright of its original author Sorry for the bad quality, there used to be a hq version of this *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Here are more images I wanted to add to this  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author So that must be it.
Wildlife Conservation in Ethiopia: Photo Exhibit Supports Black Lions
https://bwplusaddisababa.com/wildlife-co...ack-lions/  *This image is copyright of its original author
These lions are fascinating through their own anatomical characters: thick fur, luxuriant males's mane, morphology rather squat... And over this because they live in deep forest, i.e. in a biotop quite unique compared with the other lion subspecies. How do they do ? I hope they will thrive inside this Ethopian Park in order we could know much more about them... Which prey do they hunt the most ? Do they also live in pride ? And so on.
To be continued... (10-16-2019, 02:37 AM)Spalea Wrote: These lions are fascinating through their own anatomical characters: thick fur, luxuriant males's mane, morphology rather squat... And over this because they live in deep forest, i.e. in a biotop quite unique compared with the other lion subspecies. How do they do ? I hope they will thrive inside this Ethopian Park in order we could know much more about them... Which prey do they hunt the most ? Do they also live in pride ? And so on. I think these lions are one of the least studied lion populations along with desert lions living in Namibia, western African lions, central African lions living in Congo, Uganda, and other central African countries, Sahel lions living in Sudd and other Sahel countries, and Asiatic lions.
I just come to discover that on youtube... 1050 lions would live inside Ethiopia, but how many really free ? But an awareness seems to exist.
PDF on the conservation strategy for lions in ethiopia.
http://www.rocal-lion.org/documents/Lion_Ethiopia_NAP.pdf |
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