The size of the Barbary lion

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No, it doesn't say, there is the image:

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Here is the document from Dr Ross Barnett and his team: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6448349/

It seems that his results challenge the ideat of only 2 "pure" African lion subspecies, at least in the central region of the continent.

So it seems that Rabat zoo lions, the steam origin from all lions from Morocco, are not 100% Barbary origin, but those from India are the closest to the old Barbary lion. That is why some captive Indian lions, specially in cold climate, look like this:

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