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Barbary lion

noun

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  1. Any of the North African population, now extinct in the wild, of the lion subspecies…

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

    • 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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