North-East / Central / Equatorial African lions

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(01-24-2019, 01:38 PM)Lycaon Wrote: @BorneanTiger 

Very intriguing info on sudan lions. One would assume the lions in sudan would be closeley related to barbary but are not .

Or not as closely related as that lion in Gabon was to lions in Congo-Brazzaville, which Barnett et al. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.100...017-1039-2) noted was like the relationship between Amur and Caspian tigers, as in almost genetically identical, being different by 1 mutation, but apparently the relationship between Sudanese or Central African lions and Barbary lions is close enough that the CSG grouped them together as 1 subspecies, separate from Southeastern or Southern African lions, like it grouped all tigers (Pages 66–68) in Mainland Asia (Amur-Caspian, Bengal, Malayan-Indochinese and South Chinese tigers) as 1 subspecies, distinct from the Sunda subspecies (of which the only known surviving population is the Sumatran tiger): https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...sAllowed=y Reply