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Central African lion

Index Central African lion

The Central African lion (Panthera leo leo) occurs in Central Africa. [1]

107 relations: Addis Ababa Zoo, Africa, African buffalo, African lion, American lion, Ancestor, Aouk National Park, Asia, Asiatic lion, Batéké Plateau National Park, Bénoué National Park, Belgian Congo, Blue wildebeest, Camera trap, Cameroon, Cameroon national football team, Cape lion, Carl Linnaeus, Carnivore, Central Africa, Central African Republic, Chad, CITES, Clade, Congo River, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Domaine Chasse Bili Uere, East Africa, East African lion, Einar Lönnberg, Ethiopia, Gabon, Garamba National Park, Gemsbok, Giraffe, Glover Morrill Allen, Gorilla, History of lions in Europe, Impala, India, International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN Red List, Joel Asaph Allen, Katanga Province, Kenya, Kob, Lion, Local extinction, Mammal Species of the World, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, ..., Natural History Museum, London, Neurocranium, Nile, North Africa, Northeast African lion, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Old-growth forest, Palearctic realm, Panthera, Panthera leo fossilis, Panthera spelaea, Paul Matschie, Phacochoerus, Phylogenetics, Phylogeography, Physical comparison of tigers and lions, Poaching, Queen Elizabeth National Park, R. I. Pocock, Radom National Park, Rainforest, Republic of the Congo, Savanna, Siniaka-Minia Faunal Reserve, Sir John Ellerman, 2nd Baronet, Skull, South Darfur, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Southern Africa, Southern African lion, Southern National Park, Species distribution, Subspecies, Sudan, Synonym (taxonomy), Terence Morrison-Scott, Thomson's gazelle, Tooth, Trinomen, Uganda, Ungulate, Valid name (zoology), Virunga National Park, Vulnerable species, Waza National Park, West Africa, West African lion, Wildlife of Chad, Wildlife of Gabon, Wildlife of the Central African Republic, Wildlife of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, YouTube, Zakouma National Park, Zebra, Zoological specimen, 19th century. Expand index (57 more) »

Addis Ababa Zoo

Addis Ababa Zoo is a zoological park in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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African buffalo

The African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large African bovine.

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African lion

The African lion is a population of the lion in Africa.

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American lion

The American lion (Panthera leo atrox) – also known as the North American cave lion – is an extinct subspecies of lion that lived in North America during the Pleistocene epoch (340,000 to 11,000 years ago).

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Ancestor

An ancestor is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth).

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Aouk National Park

Aouk National Park is a national park in Chad.

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Asiatic lion

The Asiatic lion (Panthera leo leo) is a lion population in Gujarat, India.

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Batéké Plateau National Park

Batéké Plateau National Park is a national park in the Bateke Plateau, southeastern Gabon covering.

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Bénoué National Park

Bénoué National Park is a national park of Cameroon and a UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserve.

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Belgian Congo

The Belgian Congo (Congo Belge,; Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Blue wildebeest

The blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), also called the common wildebeest, white-bearded wildebeest or brindled gnu, is a large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeest.

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Camera trap

A camera trap is a remotely activated camera that is equipped with a motion sensor or an infrared sensor, or uses a light beam as a trigger.

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Cameroon

No description.

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Cameroon national football team

The Cameroon national football team, nicknamed in French Les Lions Indomptables (The Indomitable Lions or Untameable Lions), is the national team of Cameroon.

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Cape lion

The Cape lion (Panthera leo melanochaita) was a subpopulation of the Southern African lion in South Africa's Cape region, which is locally extinct since the mid-19th century.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Carnivore

A carnivore, meaning "meat eater" (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning "meat" or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging.

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Central Africa

Central Africa is the core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda.

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Central African Republic

The Central African Republic (CAR; Sango: Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka; République centrafricaine, or Centrafrique) is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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Chad

Chad (تشاد; Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad ("Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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CITES

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals.

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Clade

A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".

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Congo River

The Congo River (also spelled Kongo River and known as the Zaire River) is the second longest river in Africa after the Nile and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume of water (after the Amazon), and the world's deepest river with measured depths in excess of.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Domaine Chasse Bili Uere

The Bili-Uere Hunting Reserve is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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East Africa

East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography.

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East African lion

The East African lion (Panthera leo melanochaita) occurs in East Africa, but is regionally extinct in Djibouti and Eritrea.

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Einar Lönnberg

Axel Johann Einar Lönnberg (24 December 1865 – 21 November 1942) was a Swedish zoologist and conservationist.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Gabon

Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a sovereign state on the west coast of Central Africa.

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Garamba National Park

Garamba National Park is a nearly national park in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Gemsbok

The gemsbok, gemsbuck or South African oryx (Oryx gazella) is a large antelope in the genus Oryx.

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Giraffe

The giraffe (Giraffa) is a genus of African even-toed ungulate mammals, the tallest living terrestrial animals and the largest ruminants.

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Glover Morrill Allen

Glover Morrill Allen (February 8, 1879 – February 14, 1942) was an American zoologist.

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Gorilla

Gorillas are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa.

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History of lions in Europe

The history of lions in Europe is based on fossils of Pleistocene and Holocene lions excavated in Europe since the early 19th century.

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Impala

The impala; (Aepyceros melampus) is a medium-sized antelope found in eastern and southern Africa.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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IUCN Red List

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.

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Joel Asaph Allen

Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 – August 29, 1921) was an American zoologist, mammalogist and ornithologist.

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Katanga Province

Katanga was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba and Haut-Katanga provinces.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Kob

The kob (Kobus kob) is an antelope found across sub-Saharan Africa, in Gashaka Gumti National Park, Nigeria and some part of Senegal to South Sudan.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae).

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Local extinction

Local extinction or extirpation is the condition of a species (or other taxon) that ceases to exist in the chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Mammal Species of the World

Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference is a standard reference work in mammology giving descriptions and bibliographic data for the known species of mammals.

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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of evolutionary biology and phylogenetics.

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Natural History Museum, London

The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.

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Neurocranium

In human anatomy, the neurocranium, also known as the braincase, brainpan, or brain-pan is the upper and back part of the skull, which forms a protective case around the brain.

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Nile

The Nile River (النيل, Egyptian Arabic en-Nīl, Standard Arabic an-Nīl; ⲫⲓⲁⲣⲱ, P(h)iaro; Ancient Egyptian: Ḥ'pī and Jtrw; Biblical Hebrew:, Ha-Ye'or or, Ha-Shiḥor) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, and is commonly regarded as the longest river in the world, though some sources cite the Amazon River as the longest.

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North Africa

North Africa is a collective term for a group of Mediterranean countries and territories situated in the northern-most region of the African continent.

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Northeast African lion

The Northeast African lion (Panthera leo leo × Panthera leo melanochaita) is a population of lions in Northeast Africa.

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Odzala-Kokoua National Park

Odzala-Kokoua National Park (or Odzala National Park) is a national park in the Republic of the Congo.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.

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Palearctic realm

The Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight biogeographic realms on the Earth's surface, first identified in the 19th century, and still in use today as the basis for zoogeographic classification.

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Panthera

Panthera is a genus within the Felidae family that was named and first described by the German naturalist Oken in 1816.

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Panthera leo fossilis

Panthera leo fossilis is a fossil cat of the genus Panthera, which was first excavated near Mauer in Germany, and lived during the Upper Pleistocene.

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Panthera spelaea

Panthera spelaea, formerly referred to as Panthera leo spelaea, is a fossil cat belonging to the genus Panthera, which was described by the German paleontologist Georg August Goldfuss in 1810 under the scientific name Felis spelaea.

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Paul Matschie

Paul Matschie Paul Matschie (11 August 1861, Brandenburg an der Havel – 7 March 1926, Friedenau) was a German zoologist.

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Phacochoerus

Phacochoerus is a genus in the family Suidae, commonly known as warthogs.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.

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Phylogeography

Phylogeography is the study of the historical processes that may be responsible for the contemporary geographic distributions of individuals.

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Physical comparison of tigers and lions

When discussing fights between lions and tigers, a physical comparison of them is often made.

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Poaching

Poaching has been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.

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Queen Elizabeth National Park

The Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP) is Uganda's most visited national park.

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R. I. Pocock

Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist.

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Radom National Park

Radom National Park (alternate Al-Radom Reserve) is a biosphere reserve in South Darfur, Sudan, Africa.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo), also known as the Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Siniaka-Minia Faunal Reserve

The Siniaka-Minia Faunal Reserve was established as an IUCN Category IV area in 1965 covering an area of, due its importance for preserving black rhinoceros.

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Sir John Ellerman, 2nd Baronet

Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 2nd Baronet (1909–1973) was an English shipowner, natural historian and philanthropist.

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Skull

The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.

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South Darfur

South Darfur State (ولاية جنوب دارفور Wilāyat Ǧanūb Dārfūr; Janob Darfor) is one of the wilayat or states of Sudan.

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South Kordofan

South Kordofan (جنوب كردفان) is one of the 18 wilayat or provinces of Sudan.

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South Sudan

South Sudan, officially known as the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa.

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Southern Africa

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, and including several countries.

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Southern African lion

The Southern African lion (Panthera leo melanochaita) is a lion subspecies in Southern Africa.

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Southern National Park

The Southern National Park is found in South Sudan.

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Species distribution

Species distribution is the manner in which a biological taxon is spatially arranged.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Sudan

The Sudan or Sudan (السودان as-Sūdān) also known as North Sudan since South Sudan's independence and officially the Republic of the Sudan (جمهورية السودان Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Synonym (taxonomy)

In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name,''ICN'', "Glossary", entry for "synonym" although the term is used somewhat differently in the zoological code of nomenclature.

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Terence Morrison-Scott

Sir Terence Charles Stuart Morrison-Scott DSC DSc FMA (1908–1991) was a British zoologist who was Director of the Science Museum and the British Museum of Natural History in London, England.

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Thomson's gazelle

Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) is one of the best-known gazelles.

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Tooth

A tooth (plural teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.

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Trinomen

In zoological nomenclature, a trinomen (plural: trinomina), name, or ternary name, refers to the name of a subspecies.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Ungulate

Ungulates (pronounced) are any members of a diverse group of primarily large mammals that includes odd-toed ungulates such as horses and rhinoceroses, and even-toed ungulates such as cattle, pigs, giraffes, camels, deer, and hippopotami.

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Valid name (zoology)

In zoological nomenclature, the valid name of a taxon is the zoological name that is to be used for that taxon following the rules in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).

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Virunga National Park

The Virunga National Park (Parc National des Virunga), formerly named Albert National Park, is a National Park that stretches from the Virunga Mountains in the south to the Rwenzori Mountains in the north, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordering Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori Mountains National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.

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Vulnerable species

A vulnerable species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as likely to become endangered unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.

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Waza National Park

Waza National Park (Parc National de Waza) is a national park in the Department of Logone-et-Chari, in Far North Region, Cameroon.

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West Africa

West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.

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West African lion

The West African lion (Panthera leo leo) is a lion population in West Africa that is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.

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Wildlife of Chad

The wildlife of Chad is composed of its flora and fauna.

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Wildlife of Gabon

The wildlife of Gabon is composed of its flora and fauna.

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Wildlife of the Central African Republic

Wildlife in the Central African Republic is in the vast natural habitat located between the Congo Basin's rain forests and large savannas, where the human density was smaller than 0.5 per km2 prior to 1850.

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Wildlife of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The wildlife of the Democratic Republic of the Congo includes its fauna and flora.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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Zakouma National Park

Zakouma National Park is a national park in southeastern Chad's Salamat Region.

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Zebra

Zebras are several species of African equids (horse family) united by their distinctive black and white striped coats.

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Zoological specimen

A zoological specimen is an animal or part of an animal preserved for scientific use.

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19th century

The 19th century was a century that began on January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_African_lion

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