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ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - B - THE LION (Panthera leo)

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ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - B - THE LION (Panthera leo)

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11-11-2018, 07:58 AM

(11-04-2018, 12:03 PM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: Does this mean that the Lionzilla was actually a Barbary lion?

Since Egypt belonged to the former range of the Barbary lion.

Though the Barbary lion of North Africa is the same subspecies as other formerly described subspecies, such as the Asiatic (https://web.archive.org/web/200708081825...0lions.pdf) and West African lions (https://www.nature.com/articles/srep3080..._evolution; Page 72: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...sAllowed=y), Egypt has another formerly described subspecies which, unlike the Atlas lion, did not inhabit the rather temperate region of the Atlas Mountains, but the desert region of Nubia, which Egypt shares with Sudan. This was the Nubian lion (Panthera leo nubica), whose scientific name was often used for the East African lion (formerly Panthera leo massaica: https://web.archive.org/web/201707281311...ra_leo.pdf).

Nubian lion in New York Zoo, 1903: https://archive.org/stream/annualreportn...9/mode/1up

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Do you know the MGM lion called 'Jackie'? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SowXXsl8Xys 

He was said to be from the Nubian desert of Sudan, so there you go, a Nubian lion: https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/201...l_tid.html
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RE: ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - B - THE LION (Panthera leo) - BorneanTiger - 11-11-2018, 07:58 AM
Panthera leo in Europe - brotherbear - 04-28-2017, 07:16 PM
RE: Panthera leo in Europe? - Polar - 04-28-2017, 09:54 PM
RE: Panthera leo in Europe? - GrizzlyClaws - 04-29-2017, 01:13 AM
RE: Panthera leo in Europe? - brotherbear - 04-29-2017, 02:31 AM
RE: Panthera leo in Europe? - GrizzlyClaws - 04-29-2017, 02:47 AM
RE: Panthera leo in Europe? - GrizzlyClaws - 04-29-2017, 02:59 AM
RE: Panthera leo in Europe? - brotherbear - 05-20-2017, 03:45 PM
RE: Vintage - Ngala - 01-02-2018, 02:52 PM
Lion Population Numbers - jordi6927 - 04-09-2018, 03:15 PM
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