Big cat and Bear tale

[brotherbear]

In India, where lions live, according to Wolverine, and I believe him, there are no sloth bears. A sloth bear, when he feels threatened, can be highly aggressive. He can sometimes fight off even a big male tiger. But lions have a huge advantage - numbers. One bear, especially one as small as a sloth bear cannot fight off two or more lions.
In the distant past, let's say several thousand years ago, there were grizzlies ( Ursus arctos ) living pretty much throughout all of Northern Asia, Europe, and N. America. Wolverine is absolutely right, I feel certain. No grizzly would dare to challenge more than a single lion over a carcass. A pride of lions, or a coalition of male lions, might even choose a healthy grizzly boar as potential prey. Therefore, even a grizzly would avoid locations inhabited by lions. 
It may be that, in Pleistocene N. America that perhaps prides of Smilodons were as great a threat to the grizzly as was the giant short-faced bears. But fossil evidence proves that grizzlies did live there, although it appears so in relatively small numbers. I can't even imagine a mother grizzly with cubs in such a place and time. No wonder the bad attitude of a mother grizzly. Reply