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To: decimon
More than 25% bigger than today's African lions, the cave lion was itself an impressive predator, one that may have specialised in hunting cave bears for food.

Hard to believe a large predator would specialize in hunting even larger predators for food.
7 posted on 05/23/2011 5:39:17 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

See #10.


12 posted on 05/23/2011 5:46:46 PM PDT by Hugin ("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Hard to believe a large predator would specialize in hunting even larger predators for food.

Very hard to believe.

14 posted on 05/23/2011 5:56:08 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
Hard to believe a large predator would specialize in hunting even larger predators for food.

Someone may have taken license with that 'specialized.' The Wikipedia entry on cave bears has them as having been mostly or exclusively herbivorous.

15 posted on 05/23/2011 6:02:20 PM PDT by decimon
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
No problem with me. The bears hibernate and probably that is when the Lions went from cave to cave for dinner. If you and I have a fight and I wait until you are sleeping, I win.
26 posted on 05/23/2011 6:43:26 PM PDT by fish hawk
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