A brief history of bears fighting lions

X of thousands of years ago , the caves of central Europe were full of two species : the ably advert cave bear and cave lions . Even great than their modern counterparts , these ancient demon were lock away in lethal engagement for survival .

Cave lion were particularly huge , about 25 % big than forward-looking African lions . While modern bears do hibernate in caves , that ’s pretty much all they do in there . Cave bear , on the other script , spent most of their life within . The fogey record book reveals their grim struggle , as lone cave social lion would venture into the bear ’ homes looking for food .

It ’s not always easy to get that much perceptivity into fauna that died out 27,500 years ago , but cave bear lair have prove spectacularly good at uphold evidence of these ancient struggles . For instance , three cave lion skeletons were found about a half - nautical mile into the monolithic Ursilor cave in Romania , so named for its cave bear inhabitants , and a whopping 13 cave lion skeleton have been discovered in Germany ’s Zoolithen cave . Both of these hoards were found deep into cave bear dominion , meaning the cave lions had ventured within to hunt these massive creatures .

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Almost all the cave Leo skeletons found were those of older males , which reinforce the estimate that this was a hunt political party – or at least it was the adult male that did most of the fighting , and so were the most likely to go away their skeleton in the cave . Researchers trust that the cave Lion had to go after cave bear once their earlier solid food sources , the woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros , drop dead out .

Unlike their mod counterparts , cave bears were herbivorous and so would not have wipe out any of the meat that the dead cave lions stand for . Instead , they would have simply gone about their business , trampling the cave lion finger cymbals into the cave floor and , eventually , into the fossil record book .

While these ancient ancestors of bears and lion were pretty equally matched , subsequent phylogenesis has made this fight by all odds more one - sided , perhaps in part because bear and lions no longer share a home ground as they did tens of thousands of long time ago . New lion skulls are thin enough that one decent puff from a bear will crush it , kill the king of beasts now . California settlers during the Gold Rush found this out the cruel room , as they organized fights between bears and various other animals as a rather sick way to egest the fourth dimension , finally shipping in African lions in a futile effort to give the bear a challenge . For more on this rather sordid affair , I direct you tothis conversation with Britain ’s lead intellect .

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