Atlas or Barbary leopard

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Formerly classified with the scientific name Panthera pardus panthera, before being subsumed to Panthera pardus pardus (the nominate subspecies in Africa) in possibly 1996, aside from the controversy of whether or not African leopards should really be treated as a single subspecies (see this thread), the Atlas or Barbary leopard is an either extinct or endangered population of leopards from the Maghreb (Northwest Africa): https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d...10041115.x, http://www.biosoil.ru/files/00001386.pdf, https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...=y#page=73, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...ode=imdn21

Dated to the 21st of May, 2005, Schizoform said regarding this photograph of a leopardess (sic): "very sad. this is the last surviving Barbary leopard. and you know what? she's old and fat, and lives in a chain-link cage. it's like being sent to a retirement home, except people pay five bucks to take photos through the fence." https://www.flickr.com/photos/schizoform/41647289
   

Image of the Atlas lion, brown bear and leopard from the Maghreb, by Joseph J. Ortega:

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