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The Barbary lion was a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. It was also called North African lion , Atlas lion and Egyptian lion . It lived in the mountains and deserts of the Maghreb of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt .
In Greece, lions first appeared around 6,500–6,000 years ago as indicated by a front leg bone found in Philippi. [2] Bone fragments of the modern lion were excavated in Hungary and in Ukraine's Black Sea region, which are estimated at around 5,500 to 3,000 years old. [31] Remains were also found in Romania and European Turkey. [18]
The Barbary lion population in North Africa is extinct since the mid 1960s. [9] The Asiatic lion population survives in Gir Forest National Park and remnant forest habitats in the two hill systems of Gir and Girnar that comprise Gujarat's largest tracts of dry deciduous forest, thorny forest and savanna. [53]
Lions imported to Europe before the middle of the 19th century were possibly foremost Barbary lions from North Africa, or Cape lions from Southern Africa. [218] Another 11 animals thought to be Barbary lions kept in Addis Ababa Zoo are descendants of animals owned by Emperor Haile Selassie .
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Gladiators fighting Barbary Lion. Whereas the term damnatio ad bestias is usually used in a broad sense, historians distinguish two subtypes: obicĕre bestiis [citation needed] (to throw to beasts) where the humans are defenseless, and damnatio ad bestias, where the punished are both expected and prepared to fight. [6]