• @[email protected]
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    821 hours ago

    Nova has an episode about the need for multiple predator species. Keeps all of the animals in their roles.

    Wolves, lions, bears, and cheetahs.

    • @MutilationWave
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      17 hours ago

      The last American lions died out here about 13 thousand years ago. There was all kinds of wild-ass shit roaming around here back then. Humans have been wrecking the world’s ecosystems far before the industrial revolution, we just kicked it into overdrive the past 200 years.

      • @[email protected]
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        216 hours ago

        It was about 25% larger than the modern lion, making it one of the largest known felids to ever exist, and an important apex predator.

        That would be effective to get attention.