Talk:Northeast African lion
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Types of lions
[edit]| Subspecies | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|
| Egyptian lion (P. l. nubica or P. l. leo) | Heptner and Sludskii (1972)[1] treated the Egyptian lion as a population of the Barbary subspecies, but at the same time, Egypt has a section of Nubia. Both Nubia and Egypt are in Northeast Africa,[2] they are neither exclusively Eastern nor Northern African. Whether or not the Egyptian lion is the Nubian lion needs research. |  |
| Ethiopian lion (P. l. roosevelti), also known as the Abyssinian lion and Addis Ababa lion | 15 captive lions in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa.[3] Researchers compared the microsatellite variations over ten loci of fifteen lions in captivity with those of six different wild lion populations. They determined that these lions are genetically unique and presumably that "their wild source population is similarly unique." These lions were part of a collection of the late Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.[4] |  |
| Nubian lion (P. l. nubica) | From Nubia.[5] | _(18243500220).jpg) |
| Somali lion (P. l. somaliensis syn. P. l. webbiensis) | From Somaliland or Somalia, East Africa.[6][7] | _(14592552427).jpg) |
Leo1pard (talk) 16:07, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
References
- ^ Heptner, V. G.; Sludskii, A. A. (1992) [1972]. "Lion". Mlekopitajuščie Sovetskogo Soiuza. Moskva: Vysšaia Škola [Mammals of the Soviet Union, Volume II, Part 2]. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation. pp. 83–95. ISBN 90-04-08876-8.
- ^ Bechaus-Gerst, Marianne; Blench, Roger (2014). "11". In Kevin MacDonald (ed.). The Origins and Development of African Livestock: Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Ethnography - "Linguistic evidence for the prehistory of livestock in Sudan" (2000). Routledge. p. 453. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
- ^ "A New, Genetically Distinct Lion Population is Found". News Watch. National Geographic Society. 30 November 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
The Addis Ababa zoo lions have dark manes and small bodies, unlike other African lions. But life in captivity can sometimes influence appearance. A team of researchers, led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and the University of York in the UK, checked to see if the lions really are different by comparing DNA samples of 15 lions from the zoo to six populations of wild lions. Their genetic analysis revealed that the gene sequence of all fifteen lions were unique and showed little sign of inbreeding.
- ^ Bruche, Susann; Gusset, Markus; Lippold, Sebastian; Barnett, Ross; Eulenberger, Klaus; Junhold, Jörg; Driscoll, Carlos A.; Hofreiter, Michael (2012). "A genetically distinct lion (Panthera leo) population from Ethiopia". European Journal of Wildlife Research. 59 (2): 215–225. doi:10.1007/s10344-012-0668-5.
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