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
Apex predator an environment is suggestive. "Anomalocaris" was an aquatic apex predator, in the Cambrian. Its mouthparts are clearly predatory, and there were no larger animals in the seas at that time. Carnivorous theropod dinosaurs including "Allosaurus" and "Tyrannosaurus" have been described as apex predators, based on their size and dietary needs. A Permian shark, "Triodus sessilis", was discovered containing two amphibians ("Archegosaurus decheni" and "Cheliderpeton latirostre"), one of which had consumed a fish, "Acanthodes bronni", showing that the shark had lived at a trophic level of at least 4. Among more recent fossils, the sabre-tooth cats, like "Smilodon", are considered to