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2. Panthera leo melanochaita - Wikipedia

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   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]

3. Category:Panthera leo melanochaita - Wikipedia

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   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.

4. Koos de la Rey - Wikipedia

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   Member of the Transvaal Parliament, Delegate to National Convention, Senator Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey (pronounced phonetically as "Ya-qui-bis Hehr-key-lahs de la Ray") (22 October 1847 – 15 September 1914), [ 1 ] better known as Koos de la Rey , was a South African military officer who served as a Boer general during the Second Boer War .

5. Cape lion - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Barbary lion - Wikipedia

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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 ...

7. Talk:Transvaal lion - Wikipedia

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   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 ]

8. Cultural depictions of lions - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

9. Panthera spelaea - Wikipedia

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   Analysis of cave lion mitochondrial genomes published in 2004 supported the modern lion as the closest relative of P. spelaea, [1] with this result being later confirmed by analysis of the nuclear genome. [2] Results from morphological studies showed that it is distinct in cranial and dental anatomy to justify the specific status of Panthera ...