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Potential new species of Lion discovered

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    Adam Khor
    Registered Users Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/addis-ababa-lions.html

    Species?? Or subspecies? It really doesn´t look like a separate species... (beautiful cats tho)


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    Galvasean
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    New species or subspecies, that is one hell of a mane!


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    Birdnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Adam Khor wrote: »
    Species?? Or subspecies? It really doesn´t look like a separate species... (beautiful cats tho)

    I think whats more important is that the story illustrates the ongoing steady erosion of the genetic base of many species due to human pressures. Its quiet clearly another damaging type of biodiversity impoverishment we are inflicting on the planet:(


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    aidoh
    Registered Users Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    This fella is incredible looking.

    addis_lion@large.JPG


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    recedite
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    Leo Rastafariensis


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    locum-motion
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    recedite wrote: »
    Leo Rastafariensis

    No. Leo Rastafari-I


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