Lions in South-Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia

[BorneanTiger]

(08-26-2019, 11:11 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:

(08-25-2019, 06:21 PM)Lycaon Wrote: Cape Lion in the Hagenbeck zoo 

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Source: https://www.zootierliste.de/?klasse=1&ordnung=115&familie=11508&art=50902723

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

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By the way, I came across this book that speaks of 3 varieties of lions, the Bengal lion (Asiatic lion), the Cape lion, and the Barbary lion, and it mentions that the Bengal lion had a more extensive mane than the Cape lion, though the Cape lion was bigger than both the Asiatic lion and other African lions!

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Having gotten more information for the Cape lion, I am planning to shift this, or most of this, to the new thread, to make things simpler: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-cape-li...anochaitus Reply