Extremely sophisticated analysis of bones of cave lions showed that these creatures eat mostly reindeer and disappeared because of the recent withdrawal.
Herve Boherens and his colleagues at Tubingen University (Germany ) analyzed samples of 14 bones of cave lions discovered in four caves of France and Central Europe. Individuals living 40-12 thousand. years ago. Scientists burned the tiny bone fragments (less than a milligram ) and determined the molecular composition of the residue, according to compulenta. ru.
This technology has recently been used to determine the diet of Neanderthals, it applied to animals for the first time. At present, the method is accurate enough to get some information about the food chain. For example, one can understand whether the lions were hunted for adult cave bears and their cubs (last drink milk, and their chemical ...
As it turned out, lions, bears preferred, but their favorite food was the reindeer consume, as well as descendants of, a lot of lichen. Actually, for this trait of his and ... Thus, the cave lion was pretty fussy, unlike today's lions, which eat almost anything that can catch.
Cave lions have died due to the fact that about 19 thousand. years ago, Europe has started to warm up. In place of cool steppes came Covert. Reindeer had it not to your taste. Along with them have disappeared from Europe and those who hunt them. By the way, about the same time, and became extinct cave bears.
Commentators have noted that the study is too narrow geographical range, to judge all of cave lions, the area that stretched from Spain across Europe and Siberia to north- west of North America.
The term ... Most big cats lived in his time, probably in the open air, had no mane, and were hunters of single-. They got the nickname due to the fact that their remains are found most often in caves.
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