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With a special guest to boot! Perhaps not the most professional of depictions surrounding the study but a heartfelt one to be sure. A fast depiction of the inter-predatory relationships surrounding Eurasian carnivores.

For all those who would rather not read the linked paper, the abstract paints the picture well: Palaeopopulations of Late Pleistocene Top Predators in Europe: Ice Age Spotted Hyenas and Steppe Lions in Battle and Competition about Prey.

In short, the era spanning distaste that hyenas and lions have for each other has been going strong for as long as there has been lions and hyenas it seems. Adding wolves into the mix and we have a veritable smörgåsbord of interactions between large carnivores. Imagine the Ntwadumela of Cave lions ever dutifully keeping watch over the Western capitol of wolves ( Ireland, to be sure) and it's own Romeo ready to strike at the roving hyena hordes in turn. The humans and their kin usually have their hands full with them though. Being a human during these trying times must have been exciting at best and horrifying at worst. However, it's hard not to feel bad for the cave bears in specific. The poor things probably tasted like heaven and everything with sharp, stabby implements was aware of it.

Neantherthal/Hyena relationships
www.researchgate.net/p…
Cave Predator Ecology in Pleistocene Europe
www.hindawi.com/journa…

Description
With a special guest to boot! Perhaps not the most professional of depictions surrounding the study but a heartfelt one to be sure. A fast depiction of the inter-predatory relationships surrounding Eurasian carnivores.

For all those who would rather not read the linked paper, the abstract paints the picture well: Palaeopopulations of Late Pleistocene Top Predators in Europe: Ice Age Spotted Hyenas and Steppe Lions in Battle and Competition about Prey.

In short, the era spanning distaste that hyenas and lions have for each other has been going strong for as long as there has been lions and hyenas it seems. Adding wolves into the mix and we have a veritable smörgåsbord of interactions between large carnivores. Imagine the Ntwadumela of Cave lions ever dutifully keeping watch over the Western capitol of wolves ( Ireland, to be sure) and it's own Romeo ready to strike at the roving hyena hordes in turn. The humans and their kin usually have their hands full with them though. Being a human during these trying times must have been exciting at best and horrifying at worst. However, it's hard not to feel bad for the cave bears in specific. The poor things probably tasted like heaven and everything with sharp, stabby implements was aware of it.

Neantherthal/Hyena relationships
www.researchgate.net/p…
Cave Predator Ecology in Pleistocene Europe
www.hindawi.com/journa…