Subspecies "caves"
The cave lions are now all extinct. They lived in Eurasia and America. Presumably they had a tuft of black hairs at the end of their tails, like modern lions. It is believed that, unlike the current lions, they hunted alone or in pairs. This was proven by lions from Rancho La Brea, California, where young people had more worn teeth than young modern lions. They have lived in caves or holes in the winter.
1>The primitive cave lion (Panthera leo fossilis) is the lion of the Lower and Middle Pleistocene. It was once present throughout much of the Old World.
2>Painting of a cave lion by Heinrich Harder
The cave lion (Panthera leo spelaea) is the lion of the Upper Pleistocene. He was present throughout Europe. The extinction of these animals associated with open areas of temperate or cold is probably linked to climate change (and possibly loss of prey on which they lived) rather than intensive hunting by human groups. Discovered in the nineteenth century, it has first been closer to the modern species of similar size, namely tigers and lions. In describing the type of skull Gailenreuth, Georg August Goldfuss felt it was distinct from modern taxa. It is now considered a separate subspecies, but with enough character to justify his one-sided attachment to the species Leo. This is the direct ancestor of the lion moderne. It is possible that the males did not have a mane, or they have had a very small and primitive. Indeed, the representations of a lion in Paleolithic art show no mane as bushy as that of the lions today. We do not know if they had any kind of scattered spots on their fur or if their color was uniform.
3>The lion in Eastern Siberia and Beringia (Panthera leo vereshchagini) existed only in the province of Yakutia in Russia, Alaska and the Yukon Territory in Canada. An analysis of the fossil skulls and mandibles shows that this lion is indeed a new subspecies, different from other prehistoric lions namely, the American lion by a larger and a cave lion size inférieure.
4>The American lion (Panthera leo atrox) was present from Alaska to Peru throughout the late Pleistocene. These lions were very similar to modern lions, but were much greater. According to some representations in the caves, the American lion would have owned a few scratches, but much smaller than the tiger. Assume they hunted animals then slower but more robust, such as bison, but their strength and weight allowed them to shoot down the prey to the ground. They also attacked Horses, deer and even young mammoths. Many lions were found in the remains of camps dated Paleolithic humans, this suggests that lions were hunted by men. In Idaho, the remains of American lion was spotted in the debris of a cave called "Jaguar Cave", they are dated to 10,300 years. Several other fossils show that these lions were hunted by early Amérindiens.
5>The lion of Europe (Panthera leo europaea) in ancient times extended as far south as western Europe in the Middle and Near East. It is often equated (wrongly) to Asian lion.
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