{"slug":"","question":"What happened to the Barbary lion of North Africa?","topic":"EXTINCT POPULATIONS","answer_a":"The last one died in Paris in 1922","answer_b":"The last confirmed wild individual was shot in Morocco in 1942","answer_c":"They interbred with Asiatic lions and lost distinctness","answer_d":"Disease outbreaks wiped them out in the 1890s","correct_index":1,"fact":"The Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo) once roamed North Africa from Morocco to Egypt. The last confirmed wild kill was in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains in 1942. Some descendants may still exist in captivity, traced to the Moroccan royal collection."}