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5 Amazing Facts About the Barbary Lion
Cubs were even traded as gifts to royal families ... They Were Mostly Persecuted to Extinction The Barbary lion was once widespread throughout the Maghreb but drastically dwindled as human ...
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Barbary Lions Once Inhabited Northern Africa's Mountains And Deserts, But The Spread Of Firearms And Bounties For Shooting Lions Led To The Extinction Of This Species
In 1922, the very last wild Barbary lion was killed by a French hunter in Morocco. Barbary lions were a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. They once inhabited the mountains and ...
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11 fearsome facts about lions
Tojo the lion guards the Jubilee Palace in Addis Ababa (1965) Lions breed all year round and it is estimated that lions copulate around 3,000 times for every cub that survives for over a year.