The size of the Barbary lion

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(04-28-2019, 03:27 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Parc Sindibad's website: http://parcsindibad.ma/afrique-sauvage/ 

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This is a beautifull image of a captive Barbary lion in Morocco. I love this picture and altough I will like to use it for comparisons we lack the view of the paws. Maybe we can reconstruct it with other lion paws.

About the genetic, it is known now that captive lions from Morocco had Barbary genes from the father side but also they have Central African lion genes from the mother side, so stricto sensu there are not "pure" Barbary lions. However using the new subspecies studies, the lions from Central/West/North Africa and Asia are the same subspecies Panthera leo leo, so in latu sensu they are "pure" lions and can be used for conservation, which is good.

Interestingly if we want to be strict with the purity there is an study that states that Indian lions are closer to the original steam and are more "pure" genetically speaking, which suggest that Indian lions are more "Barbary" than those from Morocco, but that is irrelevant under the new subspecies clasification of the Cat Specialist Group. Reply