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Potential new species of Lion discovered

22-11-2012 11:39pm

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Birdnuts

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

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#2 23-11-2012 12:33am

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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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#3 23-11-2012 12:39am

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

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#4 23-11-2012 5:48pm

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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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#5 25-11-2012 9:59pm

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This fella is incredible looking.

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#6 29-11-2012 10:15pm

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Leo Rastafariensis

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#7 29-11-2012 11:49pm

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recedite wrote: »

Leo Rastafariensis

No. Leo Rastafari-I

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