ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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(10-20-2018, 12:45 AM)Spalea Wrote:

(10-19-2018, 11:55 PM)brotherbear Wrote:

(10-19-2018, 11:26 PM)Spalea Wrote: @Wolverine :

About #1835: I also think that arctodus was a pure scavenger and thus, hadn't the capacity to eat something else than meat as the extant brown bears do, it lived its life only by the corpses it discovered with some other opponents around or not. And as for them, among them, I think that 5 or 6 American lions eating their prey could represent a serious problem to deal with.

I agree and, in fact, I believe that the big Pleistocene cats were a greater threat to the grizzlies than the short-faced bears. A grizzly could more easily avoid the giant bears, but the big cats were hunters. The life of a grizzly she-bear had to have been horrific. Even a big boar grizzly had to be on constant alert.

The Grizzly's life would have been hard, no doubt about it. But they are very smart animals, they could avoid direct confrontations with arctodus , and let us not forget they hibernated during the winter and thus if the American lions, the Arctodus and the dire wolves were tired at the end of the winter, the grizzly reappeared at spring in front of weakened competitors.

And yes, as you say, I believe the big cats (especially American Lions living in prides and being social hunters) were its most direct threat.

May be yes too, the dires wolves if they hunted in very large prides (for exemple more than 50 members, after all it would have been possible before the men intervened) could also play an important role.

That much, that are you talking about what area. Bears aren´t hibernating in warm areas. For instance grizzlies in California before those were all killed by man didn´t hibernate and they were quite big ones what comes to grizzlies overall. Reply