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Comparative skull analysis suggests species-specific captivity-related malformation in lions (Panthera leo)
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Public Library of Science
, 2014 , Article)
Lion (Panthera leo) populations have dramatically decreased worldwide with a surviving population estimated at 32,000 across the African savannah. Lions have been kept in captivity for centuries and, although they reproduce ...
Revealing the maternal demographic history of Panthera leo using ancient DNA and a spatially explicit genealogical analysis
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BioMed Central Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
Background: Understanding the demographic history of a population is critical to conservation and to our broader understanding of evolutionary processes. For many tropical large mammals, however, this aim is confounded by ...