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Barbary or Atlas lions
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@peter :
About #6 and #7: If the Atlas lions survived for so long time, then their preys (being big animals) would have survived too. In an environment like the desert and arid regions it is quite impossible without being spotted by humans, as you told desert doesn't offer protection like forest and mountains do. I believe the last recensed Atlas lion died in 1935 in Morocco. But I wanted to point on this: the last Atlas lions surviving among a declining wild fauna (not including big preys like in african savannah), some rumours tending to believe in existence of a big subspecie of lion are quite fanciful, I think. Why would the Atlas lions be bigger than the other subspecies ? Their potential preys ? Wild goats, scarce antelopes and gazelles... Being an apex predator, they would have lived in a rich mega fauna whose existence is incompatible since the colonization, the french colonization in this particular case... Thus quite impossible since at last two centuries. Thus the big Atlas lions - in dimensions - wouldn't have survived beyond the second half of the XIXth century. When we read all the Tartarin's and other braggarts' stories, only focused by the trophies, the idea of fauna protection wasn't born. |
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