Did people kill the lions and cave bears and the like in europe? How far back was that. I know a lot of the species got limited to spain and greece in the ice ages.
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NIB@lemmy.world 3 hours agoThere is a reason there are no lions left in Europe, we killed them. We killed most wildlife and only recently we have tried to bring those somewhat large predators back(wolves, bears, etc).
I am pretty sure if there were polar bears in the Mediterranean, and the rest of the history remained the same, they would also be considered extinct or endangered.
All you need is a lot of humans and time and eventually all big animal threats will be eliminated.
hector@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
They don’t have to be threatening, just big, and a good source of meat. Plenty of docile megafauna went extinct in places just as soon as humans arrived.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 hours ago
They don’t even have to be known by humans, we destroy entire ecosystems without knowing the species (eg draining wetlands, or even greenhouse gases global climate change).