Barbary lion the King of Morocco's collection. At the beginning of the 21st century, the Addis Ababa Zoo kept 16 adult lions. With their dark, brown manes extending through the front legs, they looked like Barbary or Cape lions. Their ancestors were caught in southwestern Ethiopia as part of a zoological collection for Emperor Haile Selassie I. In March 2010, two lion cubs were moved to the Texas Zoo in Victoria, Texas, where efforts were made to preserve Barbary lions under the WildLink International conservation programme. Whether the cubs are of Barbary lion descent was not determined. In 2011, the Port Lympne
Barbary ground squirrel "Least Concern". Barbary ground squirrel The Barbary ground squirrel ("Atlantoxerus getulus") is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus "Atlantoxerus". It is endemic to Western Sahara, Algeria and Morocco and has been introduced into the Canary Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, temperate grassland and rocky areas where it lives colonially in burrows. It was first described by Linnaeus in 1758. The Barbary ground squirrel is a small species growing to a length of between with a bushy tail of a similar length. It weighs up to and has