Firehawke Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 These look great!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Trustee)ZooGrammy Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 I didn't know that there where that many kinds of lions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinding FT Posted April 14, 2014 Author Share Posted April 14, 2014 Thank you 3~ :) I just know there are some subspecies of lion from wikipedia, too. :) There are some versions of lion subspecies, but it's difficult to know from appearance, size, and distribution, still need Mitochondrion check. So far can know is the white lions are found in South Africa. If we just want to know very very simple subspecies, just 3: Barbary lion, Asian Lion, and South African lion. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Professor Emeritus)Professor Paul Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Jonathan Kingdon, who is an authority on African mammals, lists all lions as monotypic, ie no subspecies, with all those listed in Wikipedia as geographic variations. I beleive myself they they should be counted as subspecies, not just based on mitochondrial but also morphological variations. The skull of the Asian lion, for example, is very different from that of lions found south of the equator.Lions in East Africa also show variations from W African lions & the Barbary lion is very similar skeletally to the Asian rather than the southern lions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinding FT Posted April 14, 2014 Author Share Posted April 14, 2014 Oh oh!! Thank you~~ About three way classification of the lion , I just wonder, the south African lion, the form I find says P. l. senegalensis, but as I know, it's west lion.... Ummm..it's hard to know what lion for us~:) I only know Asian, African lions~ :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Professor Emeritus)Professor Paul Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 Sorry for the delay, been out all day.The Cape Lion was P.L.melanochaita according to some authorities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinding FT Posted April 15, 2014 Author Share Posted April 15, 2014 That's OK la~ :) Thank you for the explanation~ :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinding FT Posted April 19, 2014 Author Share Posted April 19, 2014 Big Cat Memorial Wall~ Contains 37 walls~ all the images are from Robert Dallet, a French wildlife artist. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Trustee)ZooGrammy Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Very nice! That was a lot of work :gold-star-smiley: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firehawke Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Beautiful! Thank you for all your hard work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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