North American AZA/SSP African Lion Population

Coelacanth18 said:
A question for people who are familiar with the zoo lion populations here: is there a straightforward way to tell which zoos have the pedigreed P. l. krugeri and which zoos just have generic lions? I'm guessing any AZA zoo that 1) has a breeding pair/group, or 2) has produced offspring in the last few years would have krugeri; would any AZA zoos receiving lions under a certain age cut-off also be safe to assume have krugeri? And are there zoos that may have both still?
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Fort Worth Zoo for sure has P. l. krugeri as their lions were directly imported, Woodland Park also made clear their lions were P. l. krugeri.
 
Coelacanth18 said:
A question for people who are familiar with the zoo lion populations here: is there a straightforward way to tell which zoos have the pedigreed P. l. krugeri and which zoos just have generic lions? I'm guessing any AZA zoo that 1) has a breeding pair/group, or 2) has produced offspring in the last few years would have krugeri; would any AZA zoos receiving lions under a certain age cut-off also be safe to assume have krugeri? And are there zoos that may have both still?
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Both Naples Zoo and San Antonio Zoo have their lions signed as P. l. krugeri specifically so I am confident on those two at least.
 
King of Komodo Dragons said:
weren't Naples lions direct imports from Africa though?
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I have no idea. Although if they were, then they could very well be.

Maybe.

The purity of the lions of South Africa's infamous lion farms is very much in doubt. When private individuals are breeding large carnivores for the gun, chances are, they aren't overly concerned with things like "pedigrees" and "directly traceable to a single subspecies".
 
Austin the Sengi said:
In very exciting news, Disney’s Animal Kingdom is home to a pride of lions once again!

Unfortunately, at the time of this announcement, the articles that I outsourced do not confirm their names and place of origin; all that we know so far is that they are siblings (1.2.0).
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Apparently they're Zahara, Neema and Mshango from Oklahoma Zoo
 
King of Komodo Dragons said:
Brevard Zoos Facebook account has also not posted anything. I figured I'd share it as it did come from an official account and i wanted to see if I was wrong about them only having the 3 brothers.
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To humor what is obviously fake news, the tweet says that the mom is Shani and the dad is Ruaha - so Brevard bred a mother with her son? o_O Isn't it against AZA policy to inbreed animals, especially to get leucistic/albino variants? Brevard was hacked, that's my two cents.
 
StoppableSan said:
To humor what is obviously fake news, the tweet says that the mom is Shani and the dad is Ruaha - so Brevard bred a mother with her son? o_O Isn't it against AZA policy to inbreed animals, especially to get leucistic/albino variants? Brevard was hacked, that's my two cents.
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Didn’t Toronto breed multiple white cubs? Also, I believe Cincy used to do that too.
 
Toronto Zoo had white lions prior to them becoming AZA and they shouldn’t have sent there elephants to paws one already died-Oakland did toe same and they died, the only other zoo that has white lions that is Aza is a male in Attleboro Ma and he is passed breeding age.
Just because they are white doesn’t mean they are inbred,
 
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