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巴巴里獅（Panthera leo leo）是獅子的一個亞種，但已於野外灭绝。現時在歐洲只有少於40隻飼養的巴巴里獅，全球則少於一百隻。 巴巴里獅以往分佈在北非，由摩洛哥至埃及。野外最後的巴巴里獅是於1922年在阿特拉斯山脈被射殺。相信牠們不單在野外滅絕，連同飼養的也都已經消失。不過，在一些動物園或馬戲團內可能仍有巴巴里獅的存在。 巴巴里獅通常被認為是獅子亞種中最重的。雄獅重180-272公斤，雌獅則重130-180公斤，約有孟加拉虎的重量。一些歷史悠久的帳目指一些雄性巴巴里獅可重達270公斤,一些學者卻指牠們的重量被誇大了，即便是圈養的巴巴里獅的樣本太小也未必能夠達到這大小，無法斷定是最大的獅子亞種，可能只有如東非獅子的大小。
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- Panthera leo leo
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Encyclopedic overview
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. It was eradicated following the spread of firearms and bounties for shooting lions. A comprehensive review of hunting and sighting records revealed that small groups of lions may have survived in Algeria until the early 1960s, and in Morocco until the mid-1960s. Today, it is locally extinct in this region. Fossils of the Barbary lion dating to between 100,000 and 110,000 years were found in the cave of Bizmoune near Essaouira.
Until 2017, the Barbary lion was considered a distinct lion subspecies. Results of morphological and genetic analyses of lion samples from North Africa showed that the Barbary lion does not differ significantly from the Asiatic lion and falls into the same subclade. This North African/Asian subclade is closely related to lions from West Africa and northern parts of Central Africa, and therefore grouped into the northern lion subspecies Panthera leo leo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barbary lion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.