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Panthera Leo

Views: 92Information Panthera leo leo is a lion subspecies, which is present in West Africa, northern Central Africa and India. In West and Central Africa it is restricted to fragmented and isolated populations with a declining trajectory. It has been…

European Lion

Views: 116 Information The history of lions in Europe is based on fossils of Pleistocene and Holocene lions excavated in Europe since the early 19th century. The first lion fossil was excavated in southern Germany, and described by Georg August…

Cape Lion

Views: 95Information The Cape lion was a Panthera leo melanochaita population in South Africa’s Natal and Cape Provinces that was extirpated in the mid-19th century. The type specimen originated at the Cape of Good Hope and was described in 1842.…

Panthera Leo Fossils

Views: 116Information Panthera leo fossilis is a fossil cat of the genus Panthera, which was first excavated near Mauer in Germany, and lived during the Upper Pleistocene. Bone fragments of P. l. fossilis were also excavated near Pakefield in the…

Southwest African Lion

Views: 101Information Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by…

Transvaal Lion

Views: 234Information Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by…

Congo Lion

Views: 101Information A Congolese spotted lion, also known by the portmanteau lijagulep, is the hybrid of a male lion and female jaguar-leopard (a jagulep or lepjag). Several lijaguleps have been bred, but only one appears to have been exhibited as…

Barbary Lion

Views: 102Information The Barbary lion is an extinct Panthera leo leo population that lived in the Barbary Coast regions of the Maghreb, from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco to Egypt, but was eradicated following the spread of firearms and bounties…