The Barbary lion also called the North African lion, Berber lion, Atlas lion, and Egyptian lion who had originally populated North Africa (Barbary Coastal regions of Maghreb from the Atlas Mountains to Egypt).
Historical accounts indicate that in Egypt lions occurred in the Sinai Peninsula, along the Nile, in the Eastern and Western Deserts, in the region of Wadi El Natrun, and along the maritime coast of the Mediterranean.
Historical sighting and hunting records from the 19th and 20th centuries show that lions inhabited the range countries of the Atlas Mountains from Tunisia to Morocco
In Libya, the Barbary lion persisted along the Mediterranean coast until the beginning of the 18th century and was extirpated in Tunisia by 1890.
The last known sighting of a lion in Algeria occurred in 1956.
In Morocco, the last recorded shooting of a wild Barbary lion took place in 1942 near Tizi n'Tichka in the Atlas Mountains.
The population was eradicated following the spreading of firearms and bounties for shooting lions.
The Barbary lion only exists in various zoos around the world.
Barbary Lion Facts-
Science Name: P. l. Leo
Size: 2.35 to 2.8 m
Weight: 270 to 300 kg
Locations: Africa
Conservation status: Extinct in the Wild (EW)
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