Big cat and Bear tale

[Spalea]

@Wolverine @brotherbear :

Even if I consider that a pride of lions can be the most fearsome pride of mammal predators on Earth and this both during the Pleistocene period and now, I don't believe it would be enough to eradicate some species of bears in the same environment. During the pleistocene, the grizzlys and the cave bear weren't any pure predators. The only one Pleistocene ursid feeding only on meat was the ursus arctodus, but its impressives dimensions could efficiently protect it even against a pride of lions. OK the cave lions surprised the cave bears during the hibernating season in their dens but that resulted in furious fights not in slaughters.

I don't know a lot about the Barbary bear, but I also believe that it wasn't a pure predator. Thus it could be able to coexist with the Barbary lion.

And as concerns the sloth bear, its distinctive characteristic to deeply sleep on the ground makes it vulnerable again two marauding lions. Because as @Wolverine said, even if the the sloth bear waked up very easily, it couldn't fight off 2 determined lions. Reply