african-lions

The Barbary Lions

Barbary Lions

The Barbary lion, also called the North African lion,[1] Berber lion, Atlas lion,[2] and Egyptian lion,[3] is a Panthera leo leo population that is extinct in the wild. It lived in the mountains and deserts of the Barbary Coast of North Africa, from Morocco to Egypt.[4] It was eradicated following the spread of firearms and bounties for shooting lions.[1] A comprehensive review of hunting and sighting records revealed that small groups of lions may have survived in Algeria until the early 1960s, and in Morocco until the mid-1960s.[4] Today, it is locally extinct in this region.[5] Until 2017, the Barbary lion was considered a distinct lion subspecies.[6][7][8] Results of morphological and genetic analyses of lion samples from North Africa published in 2008 showed that the Barbary lion does not differ significantly from lion samples collected in West and northern parts of Central Africa.[9] It falls into the same phylogeographic group as the Asiatic lion, and is also closely related to lion populations in West Africa.

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