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4 Extinct Types of Lions (1 Has Been Gone for 12,000 Years)
The extinct Barbary lion population of the lion subspecies Panthera Leo was also known as the North African lion, Berber lion, Atlas lion, and Egyptian lion. It existed in the mountains and desert ...
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Barbary lion skull from London
This is the oldest skull of a Barbary lion found in the UK. The lion was part of the royal ... zoos keep their lions healthy by feeding them more complete diets of meat, which include hair, fat and ...
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Barbary Lions Once Inhabited Northern Africa's Mountains And Deserts, But The Spread Of Firearms And Bounties For Shooting Lions Led To The Extinction Of This Species
In 1922, the very last wild Barbary lion was killed by a French hunter in Morocco. Barbary lions were a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. They once inhabited the mountains and ...
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Here's the story behind a striking image of a lion getting a CAT scan
People were intrigued, and so was I, so I dug into the back-story of how the lion ended up there. The photo, taken in 2005, depicts a then-2-year-old baby Barbary lion named Samson. Barbary lions ...