{"id":1098,"date":"2017-07-29T17:18:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2017-08-17T17:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:52:52","slug":"so-whats-the-big-deal-about-a-bunch-of-zoo-lion-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/2017\/07\/29\/so-whats-the-big-deal-about-a-bunch-of-zoo-lion-cubs\/","title":{"rendered":"So what&#8217;s the big deal about a bunch of zoo lion cubs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"slideshow-image Maw(100%) Mah(100%) M(a) W(a) StretchedBox\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/rTo9SabD5iDQWtCDMUjd4g--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTI4MDtoPTk2MDtpbD1wbGFuZQ--\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_us\/News\/ap_webfeeds\/cd9edffdd2d741459be238fd2a4066cf.jpg\" width=\"361\" height=\"258\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/5-rare-barbary-lion-cubs-show-zoo-germany-135846426.html\">A Barbary lion cub, stands next to its father &#8216;Schroeder&#8217; at the zoo in Neuwied, Germany, Monday, June 26, 2017. (Thomas Frey\/dpa via AP)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Five lion cubs have recently been shown to the public for the first time with great fanfare at Neuwied zoo in southwestern Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">The litter of cubs \u2014 three males Baz, Chaka and Sab and two females Jumina and Lin\u00a0 \u2014 were born at the zoo in April 2017,\u00a0 to six-year-old female Zari (previously from Hannover zoo) and the incumbent male, Schroeder (who was born in Olomouc Zoo in the Czech Republic), who is nearly ten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">So what is the big deal? The zoo presents them as barbary lions &#8211; certainly Schroeder and Zari are established on the European zoo studbook for lions descended from the King of Morocco&#8217;s collection. Around 300 animals are lsited on the studbook going back to the origninal animals taken form the King&#8217;s Palace in the late 1960s and placed in Rabat zoo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Since there are only a few hundred lions in India and a few hundred in West and Central Africa which represent the northenr subspecies of lion, <em>Panthera leo leo <\/em>(Bertola et al, 2016; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindawi.com\/journals\/ijeb\/2016\/6901892\/cta\/\">Black 2016<\/a>). the north african population is no loinger present in the wild, and its most likely remnant are the 100 or so animals in european Collections and in the Mrooccan collection at Rabat. So these five new cubs may yet have an important role to play in lion conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\"><strong>Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asian Age (2017) German zoo displays rare barbary lion cubs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianage.com\/photo\/life\/290617\/german-zoo-displays-rare-barbary-lion-cubs.html\">http:\/\/www.asianage.com\/photo\/life\/290617\/german-zoo-displays-rare-barbary-lion-cubs.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Associated Press (2017) 5 rare barbary lion cubs go on show in a zoo in Germany<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Bertola, L. D.,et al. (2016) Phylogeographic Patterns in Africa and High Resolution Delineation of Genetic Clades in the Lion (<em>Panthera leo<\/em>). Scientific Reports 6:30807. DOI: 10.1038\/srep30807<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">Black S.A. (2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindawi.com\/journals\/ijeb\/2016\/6901892\/cta\/\">The Challenges of Exploring the Genetic Distinctiveness of the Barbary Lion and the Identification of Putative Descendants in Captivity<\/a>, <em>International Journal of Evolutionary Biology.\u00a0vol. 2016, Article ID 6901892, 9 pages, 2016. doi:10.1155\/2016\/6901892<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five lion cubs have recently been shown to the public for the first time with great fanfare at Neuwied zoo in southwestern Germany. The litter of cubs \u2014 three males Baz, Chaka and Sab and two females Jumina and Lin\u00a0 \u2014 were born at the zoo in April 2017,\u00a0 to six-year-old female Zari (previously from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17622,129143],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}