01-08-2020, 11:21 PM
(01-06-2020, 05:32 PM)Catherine Wrote: I am surprised. I thought the cave bear was much bigger. In my mind something called a cave bear should be twice that size. The cave lion and cave hyena are much larger than I expected. They would have been serious predators. Do they know what they ate?
You have to be kidding me, that is in fact a large size for a bear. Of course this is not the maximum size for bears. There are short faced bears which are taller and heavier than cave bear and their legs are longer and somewhat leaner while the cave bear is heavily built and it is about the size of the modern Kodiak bear. Cave bear is one of my favorite animals. Indeed the cave lion is big and a serious predator while the largest lion is the American lion which is slightly bigger the cave lion.
You seriously don't want to go inside the caves when they lived. There is evidence that these 3 animals fought !
Below is a link to a battle between a cave bear and a cave lion from one of the episodes of ice age giants. I have seen that documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9qxCGqA28M
