Barbary or Atlas lions

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If you look closely at what might be the last photo of a wild Atlas lion, taken by Michel Flandrin in 1925, on a fight from Casablanca (Morocco) to Dakar (Senegal), you may notice that it was walking on snow: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...ne.0060174
   

So when there's snow, the Barbary lion's home, the Atlas Region of North Africa: http://www.pmcdz.com/2018/03/aures-mount...ia_18.html, 
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/278589926922778382/, https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/barbarylion/201...th-africa/

(Red deer in the Atlas region) 
   

(Aurès Mountains in Algeria, part of the Atlas Range)
   

(Atlas lion, bear and leopard)
   

looks more like a montane habitat with Amur tigers: https://news.mongabay.com/2013/05/snowy-...-far-east/ 

(Siberian tiger walking on snow in the region of the Sikhote-Alin Mountains)
   

than a typical savannah with lions today: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-lion-ki...ous-5-sons 

(Caesar the Masai lion in Kenya)
   

Otherwise, the Atlas Region would look something like this; credit: Ingo Mehling

(Without snow, Tizi N'Tichka in Morocco, near where the last known Barbary lion in the wild was shot: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3616087/)
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