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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.
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 ...
The lion plays a prominent role in The Fables of Pilpay that were translated into Persian, Greek and Hebrew languages between the 8th and 12th centuries. [101] The lion is the symbol of Mahavira, the 24th and last Tirthankara in Jainism. [102] [103] The lion is the third animal of the Burmese zodiac and the sixth animal of the Sinhalese zodiac ...
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 ...
Panthera spelaea, commonly known as the cave lion (or less commonly as the steppe lion), is an extinct Panthera species that was native to Eurasia and northwest North America during the Pleistocene epoch.
Lions were recorded in the Dinder–Alatash protected area complex during surveys between 2015 and 2018. [45] South Sudan, where little is known about lion distribution and population sizes. Lions in Radom and Southern National Parks are probably connected to lions in the Central African Republic. [3]