Barbary or Atlas lions

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(01-30-2020, 01:10 AM)LazarLazar Wrote: Another subspecies very closely related to the Asian lion - the Barbary lion or Panthera leo leo - became extinct in the wild in 1922 (in Morocco). This Barbary lion had been the dominant animal in the blood sports of the Roman arenas.
http://www.pothos.org/content/indexedda.html?page=lions

Aside from the fact that the Barbary lion has now been grouped into the same subspecies as Asiatic lions and lions in northern parts of Africa (including West Africa), that is the Northern lion (Panthera leo leo; see my reply here), it's not necessary that the last wild Barbary lion became extinct in even 1942, because it's possible that a small remnant population may have survived in remote montane areas into the early 1960s: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3616087/

Map of subspecies of lions by the Cat Specialist Group, 2017, pages 71–73: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...=y#page=71

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