Panthera leo, Lion

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This Panthera leo specimen, a juvenile, was collected by Tom Larson in Zkukuza, Kruger Park, Transvaal, South Africa during 1948. The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility made it available for scanning thanks to Drs. Blaire Van Valkenburgh and Jessica Theodor from the Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Timothy Rowe of The University of Texas at Austin received funding for scanning through a National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative grant. This lion is one of several felid carnivorans being studied by Drs. Van Valkenburgh and Theodor as part of ongoing research on respiratory turbinates.