The size of the Barbary lion

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I wonder what the genetic makeup of this captive Moroccan lion at Parc Sindibad in Casablanca is like. Its mane looks good enough to be that of a Barbary lion: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_lion.jpg

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Interestingly, it was on a flight from Dakar (now the capital of Senegal) to Casablanca in 1925 that Marcelin Flandrin shot the last known photo of a wild Atlas lion: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...ne.0060174 

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