Lions in West-Africa

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(08-29-2019, 09:51 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Not half of Africa, but half of sub-Saharan Africa. The Maghreb (Northwest Africa, where the Barbary lion would have been, and where the Barbary leopard might still be) and Northeast Africa (where the Nubian-cum-Egyptian lions would have been, and where the Southeast Egyptian leopard might still be, particularly in the protected area of Elba) are not included here.

Fair enough. 

Also, I seriously doubt the Barbary leopard is still around. They may have been up until a couple of decades ago but they received very little attention from the scientific community. The fact they were lumped with the rest of African leopards into a single subspecies definitely didn't help, since the rest of the subspecies was doing well. But I think it's highly unlikely that these leopards weren't distinct considering the vastness of the Sahara desert separating them from other populations. As I indicated in my last post, the idea of a single African leopard subspecies was probably a premature conclusion from limited data. 

Some photos of lions in Waza NP, Cameroon from an older document.

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