Bears and Big Cats Interactions during Prehistoric Times

[Smilodon-Rex]

(12-20-2018, 01:13 AM)Spalea Wrote: @"Smilodon-Rex" :

About #36: agree with you. If the short-faced bear, individually, was the strongest predator, and this by far, he had to share the super-predator title with the American lion living in pride. I don't think the American lion lived in big pride as the extant African lions do, but nevertheless, the prey were certainly less numerous than now on the Serengeti National park, less numerous but certainly bigger (the American buffalo of the Pleistocene, perhaps his favorite prey, weighing till 2 tons...), thus we can think that the American lions could often hunt in pack from 3 to 7-8 individuals. Against 2-3-4 lions the short-faced bear had to move his opponents away. From 5 (and more) lions, the outcome could be inverted, I think...

And what about the dire wolf ? If the dire wolf hunted in pack of 30-50 individuals (why not ?), they should have their say on that...

  Dire wolf played an role of spotted hyena, but American lion may be more tough and more confident when conflict with dire wolves, because American lion was larger and stronger than modern African lion but dire wolf just the modern hyena size, so dire wolves major competitor was smilodon fatalis becasue they were at the same class in food-chain of Ice age North America. Reply