Talk:Mixed lion populations

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Punetor i Rregullt5 {talk} 16:42, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Genetically mixed lions
Addis Ababa lions, which were thought to be "genetically unique", appear not to be purely East African lions, which were classified by the Cat Classification Taskforce of the Cat Specialist Group under Panthera leo melanochaita in 2017, but genetically mixed between the East African lion and Central African lion, which was classified under Panthera leo leo in 2017. Other populations of this mixed group are in southeastern Ethiopia and northern Kenya at least. Leo1pard (talk) 04:32, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Clarification
What this article means by 'mixed' is that either genetic analyses for lions in certain places were mixed, as in, they gave different results for the same country or region, or that clades of lions overlap to form genetically admixed populations, not necessarily that all these lions are admixed. For example, the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was shown to have both northern and southern lions, even if they do not overlap to form an admixed population, whereas the Horn of Africa is indicated as being a place of genetic admixture by Bertola et al. For example, the northeastern part of D R Congo has both Haplotypes 9 and 15, with H9 belonging to the northern group, and H15 belonging to the southern group. Though the clade map does not say that these overlap to form an admixed population, their ranges are nevertheless quite close, since they are both in the northeastern part of the D R Congo. Leo1pard (talk) 07:20, 16 November 2018 (UTC); edited 07:29, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
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