Bears of the Pleistocene

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(09-08-2018, 04:13 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Spalea, your idea of the atrox displacing Smilodon is interesting. Doug Peacock's book should be arriving tomorrow. I am in hopes that he gives some of his insight on the Pleistocene grizzly. Books about the Ice Age ( in general ) always talk about those animals which are now extinct as if those who survived were never there.

Bears are resilient animals as it can rely on many sources of food.

Eating plants when there was not enough meat, meanwhile to steal the carcass from your opponent to acquire more protein.

The SF bear was probably too big to be messed with, but not the much smaller American lion.

As the Pleistocene grizzly might be 50% heavier than an adult male American lion, and I do believe that the success rates for the Pleistocene grizzlies to steal the carcass from those lone American lions might be quite high. Reply