Lions in West-Africa

[Lycaon]

@lionjaguar 

They live in central africa. Reply

[lionjaguar]

(10-12-2019, 04:02 PM)Lycaon Wrote: @lionjaguar 

They live in central africa.

I mean are they live in rainforest. Lions normally living in open areas. Reply

[Lycaon]

@lionjaguar 

Some lions in west and central africa do live in rainforests. Reply

[Lycaon]

Male in Niokolo Koba Senegal.

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[BorneanTiger]

(10-12-2019, 09:59 PM)lionjaguar Wrote:

(10-12-2019, 04:02 PM)Lycaon Wrote: @lionjaguar 

They live in central africa.

I mean are they live in rainforest. Lions normally living in open areas.

Aside from the fact that lions in Central and Northeast Africa form a different but related clade of lions to West African lions (see this), probably in the same way that Bengal tigers belong to a different but related clade to their relatives in other parts of mainland Asia (see this), defining a rainforest as a tropical forest that receives a continuous and high volume of rainfall per annum, apparently not, because West African lions live in fairly dry forests like those Pendjari (Benin) and Niokolo-Koba (Senegal), similar to their Asiatic cousins (which live in and around Gir Forest, which in the same ecoregion as the tiger-containing forests of Ranthambhore, Sariska and Kuno-Palpur, that is Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests).

Pendjari National Park, Benin: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MareBali3.jpg

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Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/153

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[Lycaon]

oebenin

Lioness hunting western roan antelope in W national park Benin.

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Oebenin

Two reccent camera trap photos of Lions in the Atakora zone. I have noticed that the newly released observations of lions in the WAP complex look scrawny.

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[Lycaon]

Senegal lion and lioness

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[Lycaon]

ACTAG/PRW

A pair of lions in W national park Niger.

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Francois Bailon 

Very rare photo of lions in Ivory coast!

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[Lycaon]

UNESCO Africa

Handsome male in Niokolo koba national park, Senegal.

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[Lycaon]

Angry male.

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Credits: https://blogs.donboscovolunteers.de/barbarainbenin/2018/01/26/les-amis-cest-parti-unsere-entdeckungsreise-in-den-norden-benins/ Reply

[Lycaon]

Big male in Arli national park Burkina faso.

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[Lycaon]

Two males on the prowl in Niokolo koba national park. Senegal.

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[Lycaon]

Sleek Pendjari lioness.

Unkown photographer

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