Barbary or Atlas lions

[lfelipe86]

(12-12-2023, 09:05 PM)TheHyenid76 Wrote:

(12-12-2023, 07:00 PM)lfelipe86 Wrote: Good Morning! There were recent sightings of barbary lions in Morocco close to were the last ones were killed or sighted during the mid 20th century! There is a moroccan documentary about a recent sighting!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pLLabCToX8&t=2607s

Incredible find and full credits to you! Whether this man really saw the lion or not is not an issue. There is vast Arabic and persian literature on Middle eastern fauna. The famous Mahmud Al Ghazni (who was the one really kick-started the full Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent) hunting lions and other mammals have been recorded by historians. Also it is incredible that we have images of live North African lions (captive but still). This is (allegedly) a painting of the last lions in Persepolis. Quite a few Farsi webpages claim this

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Thank you! Great, amazing photo! But i believe those are asiatic lions! I have found a book that shows some information and very rare photos of barbary lions from North Africa at the Leiden museum! One thing that called my attention is their size! They don´t seem to be very big, in fact, they are way smaller than the average size for lions! The average height of a male lion at the shoulders is about 1,2m and the larger one in book is a little bit above 1m!! 

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