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Lions in South-Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia
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Beach lions again hunting seals and coastal birds in Namibia, after 35 years
Posted on 29 January, 2019 by Africa Geographic Editorial in Destinations, Namibia, Research, Wildlife and the Decoding Science post series. Posted: January 29, 2019  *This image is copyright of its original author Lioness with a Cape fur seal © PE Stander / Desert Lion Conservation Quote:Research by respected scientist P.E. Stander reveals that the desert-adapted lions eking out a living on the harsh northwest coast of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast National Park (SCNP) are again specialising in hunting seals and coastal birds such as flamingos and cormorants, after an absence of 35 years. They have also been seen feeding ON BROWN HYENAS and beached pilot whale carcasses.  *This image is copyright of its original author The study area in the northwest of Namibia that includes the Skeleton Coast National Park, several tourism concessions and communal conservancies © PE Stander/Desert Lion Conservation Lions disappeared from this hostile, remote coast during the 1980s due to intense human-lion conflict, but since 2002 have gradually re-colonised the area after a successful community-based conservancy model was implemented, and the growth of tourism in the area.  *This image is copyright of its original author A lioness on the lookout for prey along the coastline © PE Stander / Desert Lion Conservation These lions have only recently, after a period of 35 years, again started to utilise the rich marine resources, with as much as 79% of their diet in the past 18 months consisting of seals and birds.  *This image is copyright of its original author The number of recorded prey species killed and the estimated biomass consumed by the Hoanib Floodplain pride in the Skeleton Coast National Park, between May 2017 and November 2018 © PE Stander / Desert Lion Conservation Quote:The last SCNP lions were killed off by 1990, shot or poisoned by livestock farmers on the fringes of this narrow national park. Then, in 1997, a group of 20 desert-adapted lions was discovered in the mountainous eastern edge of the Namib Desert.  *This image is copyright of its original author Lioness feeding on Cape fur seal © PE Stander / Desert Lion Conservation  *This image is copyright of its original author Left: The home range area and movements of the Uniab/Obab pride in relation to the coastal habitat at the Uniab Delta (blue area) between January and November 2015; Right[b]: The home range area and movements of the Hoanib Floodplain pride in relation to the coastal habitat around the mouth of the Hoanib River (yellow area) between August 2014 and November 2015; © PE Stander / Desert Lion Conservation[/b] The population has since gradually recovered, thanks to periods of good rains, a growing Namibian tourism industry and a successful program to generate benefits for local communities from the tourism industry, although it is still beset with issues relating to human-wildlife conflict and trophy hunting. Quote:  *This image is copyright of its original author The home range sizes, the proportion of coastal habitat in each home range and the duration of monitoring of five lion prides in northwest Namibia © PE Stander / Desert Lion Conservation During the poor 2017 rainfall period, lions living inland of the coastal area started visiting the coastal area to utilise the marine resources. Three young lionesses, orphaned at the age of less than one year when their mother died of natural causes, found their way across the dunes to an island in a fresh-water spring on the coast, and survived by hunting cormorants, flamingos and teals. They then moved on to scavenging off seal carcasses, and then to hunting and killing juvenile and then adult seals. Please download this report and invest your time in reading it. Keep the passion.  *This image is copyright of its original author Hunting cormorants at Hoanib Lagoon © PE Stander / Desert Lion Conservation Stander, P. (2019). Lions (Panthera leo) specialising on a marine diet in the Skeleton Coast Park, Namibia. Namibian Journal Of Environment, 3, Section A, 1-10. Retrieved from https://www.nje.org.na/index.php/nje/article/view/volume3-stander https://africageographic.com/blog/beach-...-35-years/ Moditlo Private Game Reserve 17 hrs Last night on Moditlo at the main gate exit This happens only in Africa (and India). LOL. 
Miles (Xpl-16)
A male Hoanib Lion  *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 The Bull Giraffe that he killed:  *This image is copyright of its original author "I decided to fit this collar to an adult male lion, named Miles (Xpl-16) that lives in the Ugab River. It was a daunting task because he moves over an enormous area of 16,000 sqr km, and the last time I darted him on 24 June 2007 he attacked my vehicle and shredded three tires (see News 2007). After searching the area for four days I finally tracked him down in the lower Ugab River, where he had killed a giraffe bull." https://web.archive.org/web/20081212195202/http://www.desertlion.info/news08a.html 
Cape Lion in the Hagenbeck zoo
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Other links:
1) The facts: https://www.thoughtco.com/cape-lion-1093061 2) a small doubt: " It may be that the Cape lion was only the southernmost population of the extant transvall lion. ": https://animals.fandom.com/wiki/Cape_Lion (08-25-2019, 07:44 PM)Spalea Wrote: Other links: More accurately, the southernmost population of the Southern lion subspecies (Panthera leo melanochaita) which occurs in Southern and Southeastern Africa, and would include the Kruger or Transvaal lion (formerly Panthera leo krugeri) pages 71–73: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...=y#page=71 (08-25-2019, 06:21 PM)Lycaon Wrote: Cape Lion in the Hagenbeck zoo Interesting, because as I mentioned here, Hagenbeck Zoo in Germany had a Caspian tigress from Iran in the 20th century, expressing my disappointment about zoos apparently having say Barbary and Cape lions, or at least their descendants, but not Caspian tigers. Upon further research, I discovered that Hagenbeck Zoo was founded by a man of the same name who imported exotic animals (like his father Carl Hagenbeck Senior), including Barbary, Nubian, Cape and Senegal lions (previously used to refer to regular lions of Sub-Saharan Africa), besides Amur, Bengal, Indochinese and Sumatran tigers. Hagenbeck Zoo in 1904: https://mohistory.org/collections/item/resource:148744  *This image is copyright of its original author
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