Menelik

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  Meaghan Edwards

• 31 Oct 2009

1918 photo of Abyssinian Lion, Menelik.

 

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  Mzungu

• 12 Jan 2010

looks abit on the thin side.

 

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  drzoomi

• 12 Jan 2010

great picture...r u sure its a black lion?

 

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  Arizona Docent

• 12 Jan 2010

drzoomi said:

great picture...r u sure its a black lion?

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I think you are confusing the individual lion's name, Menelik, with the term for black animals: melanistic (or a new term I saw in a newly published mammal book: melanic).

 

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  drzoomi

• 12 Jan 2010

Abyssinian Lion = black lions
that's what i know.....correct me if i'm wrong

 

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  Arizona Docent

• 13 Jan 2010

Perhaps black-maned lions. (To the best of my knowledge, and I am 98% certain on this, there are no confirmed reports, historical or modern, of a black lion).

 

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  drzoomi

• 13 Jan 2010

can you give me any reading metrials or websites confirming what you say?

 

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  eduardo_Brazil

• 13 Jan 2010

Hi,

For sure some people mention Black Lion, but this is due the black maned and is not commonly in use today, the correct is Abyssinian lion.

Cheers

 

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  drzoomi

• 13 Jan 2010

so basicly its the same things? as i said....

 

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  eduardo_Brazil

• 13 Jan 2010

Yes the both names are correct, buyt they are not black lions, but with black maned´s, In Ethiopia they bassically call them Black Lion! Also in some papers!

Remember the incident of the killing of the black lions at the Ethiopian Zoo!