The Barbary sheep, also known as aoudad, is a species of caprine native to rocky mountains in North Africa and parts of West Africa. While this is the only species in genus Ammotragus, six subspecies
Barbary sheep at London Zoo.
The Barbary lion was a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. It was also called North African lion, Atlas lion, and Egyptian lion. It lived in the mountains and deserts of the Maghreb of
A Barbary lion in the Bronx Zoo, 1897
Public sale of atlas lions, Korenmarkt, Ghent (1931)
Painting of a lion hunt in Morocco by Eugène Delacroix, 1855, in the Hermitage Museum