The Lost Animals Of The Atlas Mountains

Описание: From the heights of Algeria into northern Tunisia. Today these mountains are home to 400 endemic species of flora and many neat reptiles, mammals and birds.

As civilisation activity increased in North Africa pressures led to the local extinction of many iconic African species, leaving relic populations of animals such as Barbary Lions, North African Elephants and other such animals to be the last remnants of a once vast compendium of beasts.

Still today the mountains hold the Cuvier’s Gazelle, Barbary Leopard and the Red Deer. Being a unique melting pot of wildlife from Europe and Africa.

The Atlas Mountains are a far lesser version of their recent past, so today I would like to cover the decline and eventual extinction of the Atlas Mountains' relic populations. Exploring the Roman, Ottoman and French roles in the eventual disappearance of these animals.

0:00 Intro
0:56 Bubal Hartebeest
2:45 Atlas Bear
4:57 Atlas Lion
9:27 Barbary Leopard
10:30 Cuvier’s Gazelle
11:15 Conclusion

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