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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]
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.
De La Rey – Lion of the West: A Biography. Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland. Weber, Max (1999). Eighteen months under General de la Rey: being the diary of the Swiss geologist Max Weber who fought for the Boers in the Western Transvaal during the Anglo-Boer War. Pretoria: Bienedell Publishers. ISBN 978-0958377485. Polack, Peter (2018).
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 ...
According to a Lions tale – 120 years of the red and white, Versfeld died of a heart attack at Ellis Park in 1932 when he attended a match between Transvaal and the Free State. The union has undergone several name changes in recent years – first changing its name to the Lions in 1993, the Gauteng Lions in 1997, before finally changing to ...
In September 1908, Billy Eagle was patrolling in the northern Transvaal near the Limpopo River when he learned from two other troopers about a pair of wounded lions in the area. He then rode to investigate and stumbled upon the lions which immediately leapt at him, knocking him from his horse.
They are the successor of the teams known as Transvaal , Gauteng Lions and the Cats (1998–2006). They had varied results in Super Rugby, finishing at the bottom of the table six times (in 1998, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2012), but reaching the semifinal stage five times (in 2000, 2001, 2016, 2017 and 2018).
Panthera leo leo is a lion subspecies present in West Africa, northern Central Africa and India. [2] In West and Central Africa it is restricted to fragmented and isolated populations with a declining trajectory.