The size of the Barbary lion

[BorneanTiger]

(04-25-2019, 09:29 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: I wonder what the genetic makeup of this captive Moroccan lion at Parc Sindibad in Casablanca is like. Its mane looks good enough to be that of a Barbary lion: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_lion.jpg

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Interestingly, it was on a flight from Dakar (now the capital of Senegal) to Casablanca in 1925 that Marcelin Flandrin shot the last known photo of a wild Atlas lion: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...ne.0060174 

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Unsurprisingly, it is said to be the Atlas lion (https://www.journeybeyondtravel.com/blog...rocco.html, https://www.tripadvisor.fr/LocationPhoto...egion.html), but I wonder what the genetic makeup is like? 

Here are some other photos from Parc Sindibad in Casablanca: 

TripAdvisor: https://www.tripadvisor.fr/LocationPhoto...egion.html 

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Parc Sindibad's website: http://parcsindibad.ma/afrique-sauvage/ 

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