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11-06-2022, 12:30 PM( This post was last modified: 11-06-2022, 12:32 PM by sik94 )
(11-06-2022, 06:15 AM)Tr1x24 Wrote: But, with emerging of humans as most dominant "animal" in the world, who gradually "took" their inhabitat, it might be that this "behavior" of "grouping" , is something recent, because lack of space.
Well, modern lions have been around much longer than modern humans. Modern humans like us have only been around for 250,000 years, while lions(Panthera Leo) have been around for about 2 million years. This exact species we follow, It's been around way longer than humans. We took over the world very recently and we are not the reason cats became social. This behavior of working in social groups isn't something that developed recently and definitely wasn't because of lack of space. Cats may have become social due to strong competition, the lionesses who allowed their cubs to stay with her past the age of sexual maturity probably had an advantage over others in terms of holding territory and success in hunting. That's probably how the first pride of lion came to be, an overly attached mother and her fully grown offspring(especially daughters) refusing to part ways and enjoying the advantage they had in numbers. You could ask wouldn't sons also stick around and refused to leave their mother/pride past the age of sexual maturity? If there weren't the threat of a new coalition coming in or the fathers pushing the young males out, they probably would stay with the pride as long as possible.