Meaning of Barbary lion | Babel Free

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Any of the North African population, now extinct in the wild, of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo.

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“Barbary lions had been believed extinct in the wild since the mid-twentieth century, survived only by a few odds and bods of DNA carried in captive individuals descended from Haile Selassie's private collection.”

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