Some loacation where a lion might fight a bear because one was in anothers territory. Is there anywhere where lions and bears co-exist. No a zoo or habitat built by man does not count. I want to know of any natural occances of this.
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The only place outside sub-Saharan Africa that lions still survive is in the Gir National Park in India.  \n\nThe Gir National Park doesn't list any bears on its list of fauna that call the region home, but the park lies within the range of Sloth Bears (Ursus ursinus) so it is at least theoretically possible that these two could come into conflict.\n\nIn terms of human-bear conflict, sloth bears are by far the most dangerous bears in the world.  More people are killed or mauled by sloth bears than by leopards or tigers in India, and they injure far more people than black bears or grizzlies.  A lot of this has to do with the number of people who share their range, but they are by all accounts a rather ill-tempered beastie, and they have long claws.\n\nIt wasn't so long ago that lions had a much more extensive range.  In Roman times, they covered most of Eastern Europe, as well as pretty much all of southern Asia including the Middle East.  Habitat loss and hunting have reduced them to the African savannahs we now consider their quintessential home.\n\nBack then, they would have had fairly extensive interactions with brown bears.\n\nGoing back even farther in time, the American Lion or Cave Lion (Panthera leo atrox) ranged across North America as well.  A sub-species of lion, it would have been virtually identical to the modern lion, but about 10% bigger.  They are amply represented in the La Brea Tar Pits and other Pleistocene sites.  They would have been quite familiar with American black bear, grizzlies, possibly polar bears, and even the short-faced bear (Arcotdus simus) a long legged hunting bear.\n\nSo today it's unlikely, but it definitely happened quite a lot in the past.
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There are also polar bear/brown bear hybrids, as well as hybrids between Asian and African elephants.  These elephant hybrids are of exceptional interest because this hybridization is not only across species but across GENUS.  Artificial processes have produced geeps and cammas.  Geeps are a cross between goats and sheep, and cammas are crosses between llamas and camels.  Hybrids between one-humped dromedaries and two-humped Bactrian camels also exist.  Additionally beefalo are crosses between cattle and American bison, coydogs and coywolves are crosses between coyotes and dogs or wolves, and wolf-dogs are self explanitory.  Leopons are leopard/lion crosses, and jaglions are jaguar/lion crosses.  Pumapards are the result of cougar and leopard matings.  Caracals and servals (both are long-legged african cats) can also hybridize.  Domestic cats can hybridize with most small wild cat species.  There are also numerous intraspecies hybrids, such as Amur/Bengal tigers and Borneo/Sumatran orangutans.  Many closely related parrot species also hybridize, as well as closely related frog species, and closely related fish species.  Bass frequently hybridize in the wild, and mallard ducks mate with numerous duck species.  Chinese geese, greylag geese, and domestic geese need no captive situations to hybridize, as well.  Nor do wild boars and domestic pigs.  Whitetail deer have been known to hybridize with mule deer.  Most tragelaphines (African spiral-horned antelope) hybridize frequently in captivity.  The usual offspring are lesser kudu/sitatunga, lesser kudu/bushbuck, sitatunga/bushbuck, and sitatunga/bongo.  The acheivement of producing an elu (eland/greater kudu cross) was especially important.  Elands can hybridize with cattle, so the elu exposed the close relationship antelope have with cows.  Spider monkeys can also hybridize between species.  Well, those are all the hybrids I can think of right now.  I hope that helps! ^_^
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Do you mean the large predatory animal called a lion?\n\nA lion is a large cat (males weigh around 400 lbs) that is found mostly in Africa.  It is very much like an ordinary house cat, only much larger.\nIts body works very much like any other mammal.  Check National Geographic for some good articles on the African lion.
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you rang\n------------\ngive a man a fish and you feed him a meal, teach a man to fish and you feed hin for a lifetime"\n\ngoogle search string: [ "louisiana black bear" ]\n\n--------------------\nFAMILY: Ursidae\n\nSTATUS: Threatened, Federal Register, January 7, 1992\n\nDESCRIPTION: The Louisiana black bear is one of sixteen recognized subspecies of the American black bear U. americanus (Hall, 1981). This species was formerly widespread in North America, from northern Alaska, including Newfoundland, south to central northern Mexico (Lowrey, 1981). The Louisiana black bear is distinguished from other black bears by possessing a skull that is longer, more narrow, and flat, and by possessing proportionately large molar teeth (Nowak, 1986). Black bears are huge, bulky mammals with long black hair. Although weight varies considerably, large males may weigh more than 6OO pounds.\n\nBIOLOGICAL INFORMATION: The Louisiana black bear is a habitat generalist and often overwinters in hollow cypress trees either in or along sloughs, lakes, or riverbanks in bottomland habitats of the Tensas and Atchafalaya river basins. These bears are mobile, opportunistic, largely herbivorous omnivores that exploit a variety of foods and closely track phenological development. The distribution and abundance of foods, particularly mast, largely affects their movements. The size of an individual's range or area it traverses annually to secure food and mates and to care for young, is probably directly related to the diversity of vegetative cover, or habitats. Constituent elements of black bear habitat include hard and soft mast, escape cover, denning sites, corridor habitats, and some freedom from disturbance by man.\n\nREPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT: While some females may breed at 3 years of age, it is likely that most don't breed until 4 years of age (Smith, 1983). Based on testicular measurements (Smith, 1983), males probably reach sexual maturity at 3 years of age. Females of breeding age in the nearby St. Francis River bottoms of Arkansas had a mean breeding interval of 2.5 years (Smith, 1983). Parturition in black bears has generally been assumed to occur in late January or early February with the actual birthing often occurring while the female is in hibernation. Litter size ranges from one to three.\n\nHABITAT: The black bear was considered numerous at the time of early colonization, serving as food both for Indians and white settlers (Lowrey, 1981). White man's occupation of the land, hunting, and ultimately habitat destruction through conversion of the virgin forests for farming combined to bring about the decline of the Louisiana black bear. The Louisiana black bear is now restricted primarily to the Tensas and Atchafalaya River Basins in Louisiana. These bears make long range movements and not uncommonly occur in adjacent Mississippi. However, it is unknown whether breeding numbers exist outside of Louisiana. The Louisiana black bear's occupied habitat consists primarily of bottomland hardwood timber found in its river basin habitats.\n\nMANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION: Black bears are featured as priority species for protection and management on the Tensas and Atchafalaya River National Wildlife Refuges, State-owned lands, and on certain important privately-owned tracts, such as Deltic Farms near Tallulah, Louisiana. Additionally, important research on basic life history questions is occurring on the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge and in the lower Atchafalaya River basin. The Louisiana black bear's threatened status warrants protection under sections 7 and 9 of the Endangered Species Act. The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears. The Black Bear Conservation Committee (BBCC), a coalition of private and public interests formed to insure the necessary private landowner cooperation to restore the bear, promotes numerous private and public initiatives to insure conservation of this s
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Try these.....\n\nhttp://www.bears.org/animals/\nhttp://www.nwf.org/wildlife/grizzlybear/\nhttp://www.bear.org/Grizzly/GB_Home.html\n\nHope it helps.
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Think of it this way (VERY simplified example here):\n\nIn Africa, the jungle borders on the plains. There's a population of ape-like primates that live in the jungle. The population gets too big, so another population branches off after a few thousand years, and lives on the plains. Thep lains are a whole diffeent story compared to the jungle. Different predators, different fod supply, different enviroment. It's very tough out there. Only the apes who have adaptations to living on the plains survive. These keep getting better and better at it, and eventually become humans.\n\nMeanwhile, th apes that stayed in the jungle also face changing conditions, though obviously not as big a change as jungle-grasslands. But, they keep getting better t what they do in more subtle ways (subtle since they don't have as ig a change to deal with). These eventually become modern apes. They look more like the original apes than humans do because they stayed in the ame environment, but eventually even those original apes all died out or became chimps, gorillas, etc.\n\nIt's possible that someday, some chimps might move out onto the plains. Maybe they'll evole some of the same adaptations that humans did, but they wn't BE humans any more than dolphins are sharks (just becasue they evolved in a similar environment and ended up looking sorta like sharks).
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It could be, lions will eat people given the opportunity, and they do live in mixed forest-savanna environments and open forest environs. \n\nThey like to sleep in the shade, so I can definitely see some dumb tourist thinking that approaching them would be safe. Natural selection is a beautiful thing, sort of unpleasant to watch though.\n\nWere they African lions or Indian lions? Indian lions live in forested areas. They're a lot smaller and more rangy looking.\n\nI can't see someone going to the trouble of mocking up such a thing and or going to the expense of CGI just for a faces of death clip. \n\nI vote real.
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Some people dispute the existence of these "marked differences" in humans. \n\nAs for other species, there is the counter-example of lionesses doing most of the hunting.
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tiger, jaguar, Lion, panther...check the National Geographic website...
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lions and tigers are one i know of. aka ligers/tygons. i believe wolves/dogs can be too. i would assume that there could be a lot more possibilities as long as they are in the same family of animal.
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I don't believe this is possible. If I remember correctly from my undergraduate education, the big cats (Lions, Tigers, Leapards, etc.) are actually more closly related to domistaced dogs than domesticated cats. Of course we know that cats and dogs can't mate, so I'm sure the big cats couldnt' mate with their smaller cousins.
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Post an addendum to your question - you don't need a whole new question.\n\nLeoin is obviously blissfully unaware (or more likely doesn't want to hear) that man and ape SHARED a common ancestor and evolution is based on branches not strength lines.\n\nOne more bit of amateur science to try to bolster an obviously wavering faith.
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Why don't you answer that yourself?  In response to your answer on the question I had about tigers....I don't appreciate being called an idiot ONE BIT!!!!  Besides that, I SAID THAT I WAS CONSIDERING IT, AND NOT THAT I WAS GOING TO GET ONE FOR SURE OR EVEN AT ALL.  I wanted to ask if anyone knew about that sort of thing.  I probably out of anyone in THE WORLD love animals...with all my heart....I have a huge passion for all animals....so think about what you're reading before you ANSWER IT...and then maybe people on here can actually get legit answers, instead of people like you calling people idiots!!!  The way you answered that question....WHO'S THE IDIOT?????????  Ha!
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I think they were killed in the flood, but have you ever read (I think) in Job about the leviathan?  Sounds so much like a brontesaurus or dipladucas doesn't it?  People try to say it's a croc, but it's  nothing like a crocodile.  Also Psalms 74 says He lopped off the heads (plural) of leviathan, and made mincemeat of the dragon.  I'm not trying to make people believe anything, it's just one of the things I wonder.
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1) The largest species of wolf is the grey wolf.\n\n2) There is already a species of wolf in Africa, and it has been there for over 5 million years. This is the Ethiopian wolf, and it is currently far more endangered than the grey wolf. It is reasonably expected t become extinct within the next 50 years.\n\n3) There is also another species of wild dog in Africa called, African WIld Dogs. Isn't that an original name. African Wild Dogs are also seriously threatened due priamrily to the introduction of diseases from domestics dogs.\n\n4) Assuming you could successfully introduce grey wolves into Africa you would almost certainly cause the extinction of both the Ethiopian wolf and the African Wild Dog. This is why actual scientists don't simply move species around without doing a lot of research on the potential effects.\n\n5) Grey wolves could only possibly survive in the very southernmost part of Africa. Grey wolves are temperate animals and they can not tolerate high temperatures, This is why wolves are restricted to Northern India and the US and have never live din Mexico or Southern India. They simply can not hunt on warm days. You MIGHT be able to introduce grey wolves to South Africa and Libya, but that would be the absolute limit of their potential range on the continent. Grey wolves could not tolerate the heat across 90% of the continent.\n\n6) Grey wolves may have strong jaws but they are weak compared to lions and hyaenas and comparable to African Wild Dogs.\n\n7) No wolf in the world could possibly outrun a lion, that is sheer fantasy.\n\n8) Grey wolves would have absolutely no chance defending themselves against hyaenas. African Wild Dogs have evolved to form packs of 10-20 adults to give them a fighting chance against hyaenas and they live in burrows. The largest grey wolf packs consist of less than 8 adults and grey wolve slive above ground. Grey wolves would be exterminated in short order by hyaenas.\n\n9) Wolves can’t live in jungles. Wolves have never lived in jungles. Wolves are temperate forest and grassland predators. They can not survive in jungles.\n\n10) It amazes me that you call yourself a student and claim to be concerned about wolves yet apparently know nothing about their behaviour or habitat requirements, or about related species already native to Africa.\n\nIn summary, any plan to introduce wolves to Africa is simply silly. Sorry, there’s no other way to describe it. It is hideously flawed on every level.
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I know polar bears only live in the north pole. There isn't any life in the south pole.
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Nature tells us that homosexuality exists.  Are humans animals?  Are there homosexual humans?  Ergo...?\n\nThe fact that you have not quoted sources is of no consequence to me -- I am willing to take at face value that perhaps the cattle and lizards were setting domination patterns. I am curious as to how the motives of the lizards were determined to be "to humilate"?\n\nty kinney, of course, makes terrfic sense about the differences beetween humans and other animals and would worth be re-reading.  \n\nOf course, without any applicable citation, which would seem to be fairly easy to find, your insistence on the behavior of cattle weakens the argument, particularly when you assert such detail as "the male/male behavior documented never culminates it penetration! therefore it is not sexual in nature."  From your reaction to other posts, I assume you're after some sort of penetration?\n\nI must point out that an insistence on male/male penetration omits other non-dominance behaviors practiced by other animal species, such as courtship. \n\nTREE SWALLOWS:  Full cloacal contact has been observed by Wilson and Bull in  male Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), complete with  the “ticking” vocalizations which are apparently reserved for  heterosexual copulations in Tree Swallows.  They also note that dominance behaior among Tree Swallows is very different.\n\nLIZARD: A. carolinensis engage in both homosexual courtship and copulation -- with one male exhibiting the male behavior in courting being the mounter and the male exhibiting the female courtship behavior being mounted. Previous studies (Noble and Bradley in 1937) dismissed this as hierarchical behavior, but more recent observations (Cooper, 1977, and Sigmund, 1987) show a more thorough understanding of A. carolinensis society, including polygamy and consistent homosexual behavior in the absence of dominant males.\n\nBISON: Courtship, mounting, and full anal penetration between bulls is common among American bison. My Lakota brothers and sisters call them pte winkte —pte =bison and winkte is the word for two-spirit, their description of the transgendered  in their Nation.\n\nFEMALE CATTLE:  Mounting of female cattle in heat by other cows is common among domesticated cattle.  (Obviously, since no marital aids have been documented, no actual penetration occured.)  The same has not been observed among wild cattle in a study by Queensland College in Australia.  Although stress was cited by the observers, they also admitted the possibility of domestication as a factor -- so perhaps civilization figures into it.\n\nBONOBOS: Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohmann observed same-sex genital contacts in wild female bonobos.  They have already been mentioned here, I just thought I would give the citation, even though no penetration happened.\n\nZOO ANIMALS: The penguins, koalas, rabbits and others that have been documented as exhibiting homosexual behaviors have most often come from zoos or domesticated situations.  This does not necessarily indicate a corrupted or aberrant social system, but (Occam's Razor) they can be more easily observed.\n\nHYENAS: Actually, Ploss and Bartels have seen hyenas licking each other's genitals.  Hyenas are of particular interest in this discussion because, according the Bestiary of Barnabus, hyenas were believed to have predominantly homosexual sex, and were associated with homosexuals.  This view was strongly held in the time of Augustine, who was a zealot advocate of conversion.