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    • The Barbary lion was a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. It was also called North African lion, Atlas lion and Egyptian lion. It lived in the mountains and deserts of the Maghreb of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt. It was eradicated following the spread of firearms and bounties for shooting lions. A comprehensive review of hunting and sighting re… See more

    DomainEukaryota
    KingdomAnimalia
    PhylumChordata
    ClassMammalia
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    Barbary lion zoological specimens range in colour from light to dark tawny. Male lion skins had manes of varying colouration and length. Head-to-tail length of stuffed males in zoological collections varies from 2.35 to 2.8 m (7 ft … See more

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    Felis leo was the scientific name proposed by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for a type specimen from Constantine, Algeria. Following Linnaeus's description, several lion zoological specimens from North Africa were descri… See more

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  1. Barbary lion
    The Barbary lion was a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. It was also called North African lion, Atlas lion and Egyptian lion. It lived in the mountains and deserts of the Maghreb of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt. It was eradicated following the spread of firearms and bounties for shooting lions.

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    Which African lion was extinction?
    One of the subspecies that succumbed to extinction was the Barbary lion (Panthera leo barbaricus), also referred to as the North African lion or Egyptian lion. The Barbary lion was morphologically very different from the African lion we know today.

    Barbary Lion Extinction - ArcGIS StoryMaps

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    Are Barbary lions extinct?
    The Barbary lion is one of the biggest P. leo subspecies considered extinct since the middle of the twentieth century. This subspecies was first described under the trinomen Felis leo barbaricus by Johann Nepomuk Meyer, an Austrian zoologist, on the basis of a type specimen from Barbary. Barbary lions preferred mountainous and forested terrain.

    Barbary Lion Facts, Habitat, Last Sightings, Pictures and Diet

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    Are lions still alive in Egypt?
    Egypt’s short-maned lions, revered as sacred and even occasionally mummified, vanished around this time. Then about 150 years ago, as Egypt’s growing population became more industrialized, more species disappeared, including leopards and wild boar. Today, only 8 of the original 37 large-bodied mammals remain.

    Egypt’s Mammal Extinctions Tracked Through 6,000 Years of Art

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    When was the last Lion lost in North Africa?
    Our calculation of the time of extinction (TE) corresponds with the recent suggestion that the last Barbary lion was probably lost in the destruction of forests north of Setif in 1958 during the French-Algerian War . 4.2 Adaptation of Lions in North African Ecosystems

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    Are Barbary lions extinctions a human encroachment?
    The North African “Barbary” lion's recent extinction history and the impact of human encroachment into its former range have been well documented in the literature .

    2. The Biogeographical and Ecological Significance of the Barbary Lion

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    When did Lions go extinct?
    It was eradicated following the spread of firearms and bounties for shooting lions. A comprehensive review of hunting and sighting records revealed that small groups of lions may have survived in Algeria until the early 1960s, and in Morocco until the mid-1960s. Today, it is locally extinct in this region.

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    Egypt’s Mammal Extinctions Tracked Through 6,000 …

    Sep 8, 2014 · Egypt’s short-maned lions, revered as sacred and even occasionally mummified, vanished around this time. Then about 150 years ago, as Egypt’s growing population became more industrialized ...

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  5. Encyclopedia of Life
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    Examining the Extinction of the Barbary Lion and Its

    Apr 3, 2013 · A more recent extinction date for Barbary lions raises several questions: (a) how lions managed to persist in degraded North African ecosystems; (b) whether later persistence in North Africa provides insights for …

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    Rare mummified lions add to Egyptology buzz - Nature

    Nov 26, 2019 · Each lion mummy in the latest trove is around 1 metre long and dates to ancient Egypt’s 26th Dynasty (664–525 bc), according to a statement from the Supreme Council of Antiquities, part of the...

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    Barbary Lion Facts and Figures - ThoughtCo

    Aug 6, 2018 · Today, in captivity, a few surviving lion subspecies harbor remnants of Barbary Lion genes, so it may yet be possible to selectively breed this big cat and reintroduce it into the wild, a program known as de-extinction.

  11. National Center for Biotechnology Information
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    Barbary Lions: A Natural History - Owlcation

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