European Cave Lion

The Eruopean Cave Lion

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Pets & Animals

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• european
• cave
• lion

[takkubell]

a lion without a mane is not a lion.. just some carnivore cat..

[Schamah]

@takkubell Tsavo lions are maneless, does that mean that they are "just some carnivore cat" ?

[takkubell]

@Schamah

oh come on ..don't go all scientific now. u know what i meant.. plus no scientist has ever proved 100% that both European cave lions and american lions were maneless..

[Schamah]

@takkubell Yehh sure , I never said that they were maneless. Some experts also state that they also had a mane like modern lions.

[LeoMessi42]

@takkubell

what about African female lion?? are they not lions just because they dont have a mane?? lol man

[xxjonkoxx]

Haha what was the lion thinking.

If momma mammoth turns away I grab baby mammoth and run away quickly xD

Wonder how those lions really looked back in those times.

[PreciousRubine]

Imagine if these things were still around today .

[monuverma132003]

cave lions were not lions.they were a different species.its just the same as sabretooth tigers are not really tigers

[speedyrevolution]

They say that Cave Lion were the largest cat that ever lived, larger than modern day lions, almost 5 feet tall at the shoulder.

[Dinoscarex]

Did someone see the big fangs in his mouth?

[gethsoftware]

@takkubell so female lions are not lions?

[DonChilenito]

only cause it's named Lion it doesnt mean it has to have Mane.. remember that the cavelion/american lion where bigger than the Liger.

[DonChilenito]

@takkubell. Lioness doesent have mane.. you're comment is just redic....

[Ceith]

@Schamah

Male lions don't do the hunting, the females do and female lions don't have manes. So maybe the one in the video is a female.

[skrueger1983]

@takkubell Lioness' don't have manes. The males have the large manes while the females do not. It's still a lion, not just a carivore cat.

[o0Topcat0o]

@takkubell You're way off. In fact the only type of Lion proved to have a "proper" mane is the African through to India, modern Panthera leo groups.  Panthera leo spelaea, the subspecies depicted here has no phylogenetic disposition towards male mane development (Burger at al, 2004) , no skeletal remains suggest a mane was present (Deidrich, 2007, 2009) and early human depictions of lions as late as 30,000 years ago in the Chauvet caves clearly show mane-less males.