The American Lion: A New World King

Описание: In our newest entry of Extinction Files, we cover the largest cat to have ever roamed North America, the aptly named American Lion, otherwise known as Panthera atrox. Competing with the last and the largest of the saber tooths, it was truly a new world king!

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Introduction
2:12 History & Discovery
5:55 Physiology
10:17 Family
14:11 Ecology & Environment
19:26 Pop Culture
21:49 Extinction & Conclusion
24:36 Outro

MUSIC USED:
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"Be Prepared (Instrumental)" - Hans Zimmer (The Lion King OST)
"The Shaman's Story" - Jason Graves (Far Cry: Primal OST)
"Walking with Beasts" - Ben Bartlett (Walking with Beasts OST)
"The Great Steppe" - J. J. Ipsen (The Music of Planet Zoo)
"Terraformer" - Alistair Lindsay (Rimworld OST)
"Don't Freeze Up" - Alistair Lindsay (Rimworld OST)
"Naru's Way" - Sarah Schachner (Prey (Original Soundtrack))
"Call of Juarez: Gunslinger | Main Theme" - Paweł Błaszczak & Rod Abernethy
"Prairie Grasslands" - J. J. Ipsen (North America: The Music of Planet Zoo)
"When the Morning Light Shines In" - Dan Romer (Official Far Cry 5 OST)
"Yankee Doodle (Fife and Drum)" - Unknown Artist
"Brian Dies" - Ron Jones (Life of Brian | Family Guy OST)
"Beyond the Great Plains" - Sarah Schachner (Prey (Original Soundtrack))
"King of Pride Rock" - Hans Zimmer (The Lion King OST)


SOURCES:
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Cave lion and bear dispersal into North America:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

The Cat’s enigmatic placement:
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

The Beringian Cave lion:
https://beringia.com/exhibit/ice-age-...

The Wikipedia Page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

National Park site about the American Lion:
https://www.nps.gov/whsa/learn/nature....

Panthera tigris “spelaea:”
https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/n...

Pronghorns and other felids:
https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.quaint.20...

To be a lion, or to not be a lion? That is the question:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

The Lion and Beringia:
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-li....

Cranial structures:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
"Craniomandibular morphology and phylogenetic affinities of Panthera atrox: implications for the evolution and paleobiology of the lion lineage"

Growth rate of wild African lions:
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary...

Ligers and other Felidae hybrids:
https://crownridgetigers.com/lions-ti...

The first American lion Fossil:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1005282?...

Re-Wilding America 2005:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

2017 American lion extinction theory:
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

Sambir Cave cave lion specimen (Proposed 912 kg size estimate):
https://link.springer.com/article/10....