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The Cape lion was a lion Panthera leo melanochaita population in South Africa's Natal and Cape Provinces that has been locally extinct since the mid-19th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The type specimen originated at the Cape of Good Hope and was described in 1842.
Drakenstein Lion Park is a zoological park in Drakenstein, Western Cape, South Africa.It was established in 1998 to keep lions which could not be rehabilitated into the wilderness, [1] and was meant to replace the now-defunct Tygerberg Zoo, [2] which housed possible descendants of the Cape lion, amongst other animals.
He spent 30 years searching zoos and circuses world-wide, for lions that looked like Cape lions, [8] until 2000, when a friend sent photographs of lions resembling Cape lions in the Novosibirsk Zoo in Russia. A black-maned lion named Simon, descended from lions which the zoo acquired in 1961, perhaps from a travelling circus, was the best specimen.
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Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. [1] In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and are threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by local people in retaliation for loss of livestock, and in several countries also by trophy hunting. [2]
The Big Five. In Africa, the Big Five game animals are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and African buffalo. [1] The term was coined by big-game hunters to refer to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot, [2] [3] [4] but is now more widely used by game viewing tourists and safari tour operators.
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Between 2008 and 2016, IUCN Red List assessors used only two subspecific names: P. l. leo for African lion populations, and P. l. persica for the Asiatic lion population. [ 2 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the Cat Specialist Group revised lion taxonomy , and recognises two subspecies based on results of several ...