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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
They concluded that the Barbary lion died out in Morocco in 1948 and went extinct in Algeria 10 years later. The last sighting could be traced back to 1956 in a forested region in Algeria.
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4 Extinct Types of Lions (1 Has Been Gone for 12,000 Years)
The Barbary lion was previously considered a separate ... they might even have been the same lions that battled gladiators in ancient Rome. Due to overhunting, habitat destruction, and a fatal ...
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Barbary lion skull from London
This is the oldest skull of a Barbary lion found in the UK. The lion was part of the royal zoo in the Tower of London 700 years ago. Workmen digging in the old moat around the Tower of London in 1937 ...