Primates and Predator Interactions

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"I was referring to before the advance of heavy human populations and destruction. I mentioned that lions have been around since the late Pleistocene and, had they adapted to the Congo ( all of the Congo including the low-land jungle ) they would have been safer from human hunters. But, evidently, lions are not well suited for forest life. "

The savannah is at least 5 times the size of the basin which is heavily dense with trees and shrubs in some places compared to open plains. The savannah would obviously be a much larger lion territory.

All of the Congo has been under human attack for decades, deforestation occurs everywhere there and lions paid the price along with many other species. Lions live in the "forest," they are suited to it. The "forest" is a broad term, you can always switch it to "this type or that" but it doesn't change the fact that they adapted to forest life a long with many other styles of life. Reply