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1931 – Jim Parks Jr., English cricketer and manager (d. 2022) 1932 – Pál Csernai, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2013) 1933 – Maureen Duffy, English author, poet, playwright and activist [22] 1933 – Francisco Gento, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 2022) 1935 – Derek Bell, Irish harp player, pianist, and songwriter (d. 2002)
Aftermath of the 2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis The Election Commission of Pakistan bans former prime minister Imran Khan from seeking an elected office in the government for five years, citing Khan's deceit in declaring some of the gifts that he received from foreign dignitaries during his premiership .
Lion samples from North Africa and India clustered into a single clade, and the lions in West Africa and northern parts of Central Africa also form distinct clades. [26] Analysis of phylogenetic data of 194 lion samples from 22 countries revealed that Central and West African lions diverged about 186,000–128,000 years ago from the ...
In 2016, IUCN Red List assessors used P. l. leo for all lion populations in Africa. [20] [19] The Barbary lion was considered a distinct lion subspecies. [21] [19] In 2017, the Cat Classification Task Force of the Cat Specialist Group subsumed the lion populations in North, West and Central Africa and Asia to P. l. leo. [22]
Vegetation outside Goz Beïda. The wildlife of Chad is composed of its flora and fauna. [1] [2] West African lions, buffalo, hippopotamuses, Kordofan giraffes, antelopes, African leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, Bush elephants, and many species of snakes are found there, although most large carnivore populations have been drastically reduced since the early 20th century.
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]
American zoologist Edmund Heller described the Cape lion's skull as longer than those of equatorial lions, by at least 1.0 in (25 mm) on average, despite being comparatively narrow. He considered the Cape lion to have been 'distinctly' bigger than other lions in Africa. [19] Lions approaching 272 kg (600 lb) were shot south of the Vaal River.
In 2005, Lion Conservation Strategies were developed for West and Central Africa, and or East and Southern Africa. The strategies seek to maintain suitable habitat, ensure a sufficient wild prey base for lions, reduce factors that lead to further fragmentation of populations, and make lion–human coexistence sustainable.