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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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5 Amazing Facts About the Barbary Lion
Widely regarded as a symbol of royalty, the Barbary lion stood out from all other lions. Once found throughout the mountainous deserts of Northern Africa, this big cat tragically went extinct from ...
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Here's the story behind a striking image of a lion getting a CAT scan
People were intrigued, and so was I, so I dug into the back-story of how the lion ended up there. The photo, taken in 2005, depicts a then-2-year-old baby Barbary lion named Samson. Barbary lions ...
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Monkeys of Morocco
These days the Barbary macaque’s range has dwindled to pockets of forest in Morocco and Algeria, with a semiwild population in Gibraltar. Unfortunately macaques still tempt visitors ...