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In December 2014, Peter Lik reportedly sold a photograph titled Phantom to an anonymous bidder for $6.5 million, making it potentially the third highest price paid for a photograph. [32] [33] [34] Lik's claim has been greeted with much scepticism.
Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. [1] In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and are threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by local people in retaliation for loss of livestock, and in several countries also by trophy hunting. [2]
Is it more common in transvaal lions than other subspecies while still affecting only a small number of the animals? Or is it common in transvaal lions in general but rare in the rest of nature? 74.243.12.95 ( talk ) 00:14, 13 January 2011 (UTC) [ reply ]
The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2] The city of Carlotta, California was up for auction on eBay in February 2003. [3] In September 2004, the Indiana Firebirds arena football team was auctioned off, first in a regular auction that failed to reach the reserve price, [4] and again as a "Buy it Now" item for ...
The Cape lion was a lion Panthera leo melanochaita population in South Africa's Natal and Cape Provinces that has been locally extinct since the mid-19th century. [1] [2] The type specimen originated at the Cape of Good Hope and was described in 1842. [3] The Cape lion was once considered a distinct lion subspecies.
[1] [2] The first excavated lion fossil was found in southern Germany, and described by Georg August Goldfuss using the scientific name Felis spelaea. It probably dates to the Würm glaciation, and is 191,000 to 57,000 years old. [3] Since then, older lion skull fragments were excavated in Germany and in other parts of Europe, including in ...
Articles relating to Panthera leo melanochaita and its subgroups. It 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 are threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by local people in retaliation for loss of livestock, and in several countries also by trophy hunting.
The word aslan is Turkish for lion. The lion is also the symbol for Gryffindor house, the house of bravery, in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back is a 1963 children's book written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein. Lions also tend to appear in several children's stories, being depicted as "the king of the ...