A Barbary lion cub, born in August at the Rabat National Zoological Garden, will be presented to visitors starting Sunday in the “Savanna” biozone, the zoo announced on Thursday.

Cubs were even traded as gifts to royal families ... They Were Mostly Persecuted to Extinction The Barbary lion was once widespread throughout the Maghreb but drastically dwindled as human ...

People were intrigued, and so was I, so I dug into the back-story of how the lion ended up there. The photo, taken in 2005, depicts a then-2-year-old baby Barbary lion named Samson. Barbary lions ...