{"id":188,"date":"2014-07-10T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T09:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/?p=188"},"modified":"2014-07-10T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:28:29","slug":"moroccan-royal-lions-in-zoos-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/2014\/07\/10\/moroccan-royal-lions-in-zoos-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan lions in zoos today"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of zoos in Europe have lions descended directly (and exclusively) from animals which were in the King of Morocco’s royal collection in Rabat in 1969. A few examples on the animals in captivity are shown here:<\/p>\n

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Male at Port Lympne Zoo, UK (Photo N Yamaguchi)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Male lion (Milo) at Port Lympne, UK (Photo: S Black)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lionesses at Rabat, Morocco (Photo: N Yamaguchi)<\/p><\/div>\n

During the 1990s Port Lympne in Kent (UK) was one of the few zoos with a breeding group outside Morocco. Suliman (left) was sourced from Rabat zoo and at one stage was the sire to about a quarter of the total population of animals outside Europe. He is now retired from the breeding programme.<\/p>\n

Two of Suliman’s sons are important breeding animals. One has since been transferred to Zoo Hannover (Chalid) to join a group of females. The remaining brother Milo (left) is now intended as the prime breeding male at Port Lympne. His current partner is a lioness sourced from Madrid zoo.<\/p>\n

Several females have been imported from Morocco into European zoos over the past decade. The focus of zoo-based breeding is to preserve important bloodlines represented by various animals across several zoos. Active arrangements for transfers of animals have been revived over recent years.<\/p>\n

Further Reading:<\/p>\n

Black S, Yamaguchi N, Harland A, Groombridge J (2010) Maintaining the genetic health of putative Barbary lions in captivity: an analysis of Moroccan Royal Lions<\/a>. Eur J Wildl Res 56: 21\u201331. doi: 10.1007\/s10344-009-0280-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of zoos in Europe have lions descended directly (and exclusively) from animals which were in the King of Morocco’s royal collection in Rabat in 1969. A few examples on the animals in captivity are shown here: During the 1990s Port Lympne in Kent (UK) was one of the few zoos with a breeding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121738],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}