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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. Melanism - Wikipedia

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    Melanistic animals were found to carry at least one copy of a mutant MC1R sequence allele, bearing a 15-base pair inframe deletion. Ten unrelated melanistic jaguars were either homozygous or heterozygous for this allele. A 24-base pair deletion causes the incompletely dominant allele for melanism in the jaguarundi.

  4. Lion - Wikipedia

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    The English word lion is derived via Anglo-Norman liun from Latin leōnem (nominative: leō), which in turn was a borrowing from Ancient Greek λέων léōn. The Hebrew word לָבִיא lavi may also be related. [4] The generic name Panthera is traceable to the classical Latin word 'panthēra' and the ancient Greek word πάνθηρ 'panther ...

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  6. 50 Of The Wildest And Cutest Genetic Mutations Ever ... - AOL

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    White lions went "technically extinct" for 12 years before they slowly started reemerging. Today, there are estimated to be only 13 in the wild. ... #28 A Melanistic Asian Water Monitor (Varanus ...

  7. Liger - Wikipedia

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    The history of lion–tiger hybrids dates to at least the early 19th century in India. In 1798, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844) made a colour plate of the offspring of a lion and a tiger. The name "liger", a portmanteau of lion and tiger, was coined by the 1930s. [4] "Ligress" is used to refer to a female liger, on the model of ...

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  9. 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.