What extinct lion preyed on the North African Boar?
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North African boar The North African boar ("Sus scrofa algira") is a smaller subspecies of wild boar native to North Africa including Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. It is a prey animal for predators such as striped hyenas, Barbary leopards and Barbary lions.
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Barbary lion The Barbary lion ("Panthera leo leo") is the nominate lion subspecies. In North Africa, lions are locally extinct in the wild due to excessive hunting; the last known Barbary lion was killed in Morocco in 1920. Some authors referred to it as the Berber lion, and treated the Egyptian lion as a population of this subspecies. Since it had inhabited the Atlas Mountains, and was also known as the Atlas lion. In addition, Alfred Edward Pease referred to the Barbary lion as the North African lion, and claimed that the population had diminished since the mid-19th century, following the diffusion of firearms and bounties for shooting them. The last recorded shooting of a wild Barbary lion took place in Morocco, near Tizi n'Tichka in 1942. Small groups of lions may have survived in Algeria until the early 1960s, and in Morocco until the mid-1960s.
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Thylacoleonidae Thylacoleonidae is a family of extinct meat-eating marsupials from Australia, referred to as marsupial lions. The best known is "Thylacoleo carnifex", also called the marsupial lion. The clade ranged from the Late Oligocene to the Pleistocene, with some species the size of a possum and others as large as a leopard. The discovery of a new small sized species indicates a higher ecological diversity than previously thought.
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Lion of Al-lāt The Lion of al-Lāt (Arabic اللات) was an ancient statue of a lion holding a crouching gazelle which adorned the temple of pre-Islamic goddess al-Lāt in Palmyra, Syria. The statue was made from limestone ashlars in the early 1st century AD and measured 3.5 m in height, weighing 15 tonnes. The lion was regarded as the consort of Al-lāt. The gazelle symbolized Al-lāt's tender and loving traits, as bloodshed was not permitted under penalty of Al-lāt's retaliation. The lion's left paw had a partially damaged Palmyrene inscription which read: "tbrk ʾ"["lt"] (Al-lāt will bless) "mn dy lʾyšd" (whoever will not shed) "dm ʿl ḥgbʾ" (blood in the sanctuary). On 27 June 2015 the statue was demolished by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after it had captured Palmyra. The statue has since been moved to the National Museum of Damascus where it is undergoing restoration works.
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Leopard The leopard ("Panthera pardus") is one of the five "big cats" in the genus "Panthera". It is a member of the family Felidae with a wide range in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia. Fossil records suggest that in the Late Pleistocene it occurred in Europe and Japan.
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Plains zebra The plains zebra ("Equus quagga", formerly "Equus burchellii"), also known as the common zebra or Burchell's zebra, or locally as the "quagga" (not to be confused with the extinct subspecies), is the most common and geographically widespread species of zebra. It ranges from the south of Ethiopia through East Africa to as far south as Botswana and eastern South Africa. The plains zebra remains common in game reserves, but is threatened by human activities such as hunting for its meat and hide, as well as competition with livestock and encroachment by farming on much of its habitat.
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Kolpochoerus Kolpochoerus is an extinct genus of the pig family Suidae related to the modern-day genera "Hylochoerus" and "Potamochoerus". It is believed that most of them inhabited African forests, as opposed to the bushpig and red river hog that inhabit open brush and savannas. There are currently 8 recognized species.
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Cape wild dog The Cape wild dog ("Lycaon pictus pictus"), also known as South African wild dog or Cape hunting dog, is the nominate subspecies of African wild dog native to Southern Africa.
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Afrodon Afrodon is an extinct genus of eutherians in the family Adapisoriculidae. Its type species is "Afrodon chleuhi", known from the late Palaeocene of Morocco. The other known species are "Afrodon germanicus" from the late Palaeocene of Germany and France, "Afrodon tagourtensis" from the early Eocene of Morocco, "Afrodon ivani" from the late Palaeocene of Spain, and "Afrodon gheerbranti" from the early Paleocene of Belgium.
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Pratifelis martini Pratifelis martini is an extinct feline species that lived in North America during the late Miocene period. A jawbone from the animal was discovered by H. T. Martin in Wallace County, Kansas in 1911, and paleontologist Claude W. Hibbard documented it as a new species.
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Atlas wild ass The Atlas wild ass ("Equus africanus atlanticus"), also known as Algerian wild ass, is a purported extinct subspecies of the African wild ass that was once found across North Africa and parts of the Sahara. It was last represented in a villa mural ca.300 AD in Bona, Algeria, and became extinct as a result of Roman sport hunting.
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Agriotherium Agriotherium is an extinct genus of bears whose fossils are found Miocene through Pleistocene-aged strata of North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, living from ~13.6–2.5 Ma, existing for approximately . Materials of the late surviving "A. africanum" from Africa has suggested that "A. africanum" died out soon during the early Gelasian.
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African hobby The African hobby ("Falco cuvierii") is a small species of bird of prey in the family Falconidae.
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Japanese boar The Japanese boar ("Sus scrofa leucomystax"), also known as the white-moustached pig, inoshishi (イノシシ ) , or yama kujira (山鯨 , lit. "mountain whale") , is a subspecies of wild boar native to all of Japan, save for Hokkaido and the Ryukyu Islands. It is a small, almost maneless, yellowish-brown subspecies with distinctive white whiskers extending from the corners of the mouth to the cheeks.
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Hokkaido wolf The Hokkaido wolf ("Canis lupus hattai"), also known as the Ezo wolf (Japanese: エゾオオカミ（蝦夷狼）ー , Hepburn: Ezo Ōkami ) and in Russia as the Sakhalin wolf, is an extinct subspecies of gray wolf that once inhabited coastal north-east Asia. Its nearest relatives were the wolves of North America rather than Asia. It was exterminated in Hokkaidō during the Meiji Restoration period, when American-style agricultural reforms incorporated the use of strychnine-laced baits to kill livestock predators. Some taxonomists believe that it still survives on Sakhalin island. It was one of two subspecies that were once found in the Japanese archipelago, the other being the Japanese wolf.
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Aurochs The aurochs ( or ; pl. aurochs, or rarely aurochsen, aurochses), also urus, ure ("Bos primigenius"), is an extinct species of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia, and North Africa. It is the ancestor of domestic cattle. The species survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland, in 1627.
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Megaloceros Megaloceros (from Greek: μεγαλος, megalos + κερας, keras, literally "Great Horn"; see also Lister [1987]) is an extinct genus of deer whose members lived throughout Eurasia from the late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene and were important herbivores during the Ice Ages. The largest species, "Megaloceros giganteus", vernacularly known as the "Irish Elk" or "Giant elk", is also the best known.
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Cave wolf The cave wolf ("Canis lupus spelaeus") is an extinct type of wolf that lived during the Ice Age. It inhabited what is now modern-day western Europe. The Don wolf ("C. l. brevis") from eastern European is regarded as a taxonomic synonym, which indicates that one subspecies once lived across Europe.
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Amphicyon Amphicyon ("ambiguous dog") is an extinct genus of large carnivorous bone-crushing mammals, popularly known as bear-dogs, of the family Amphicyonidae, subfamily Amphicyoninae, from the Aquitanian Epoch until the early Pleistocene. They ranged over North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa from 16.9—2.6 Ma ago, existing approximately .
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Cave lion Cave lions are large extinct carnivorous felids that are classified either as subspecies of the lion ("Panthera leo") or as distinct but closely related species, depending on the authority.
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Palaeoloxodon Palaeoloxodon is an extinct genus that contains the various species of straight-tusked elephant. Its species' remains have been found in Bilzingsleben, Germany; Cyprus; Japan; India; Sicily; Malta; and in England during the excavation of the second Channel Tunnel. The English discovery, in 2006 in northwest Kent, dated c. 400,000 ybp, was of a single adult; associated with it were Palaeolithic stone butchering tools of the type used by "Homo heidelbergensis". One species, "Palaeoloxodon namadicus", was the largest known land mammal.
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Tuscany lion The Tuscany lion or Tuscany jaguar ("Panthera toscana") was a prehistoric large feline of the Villafranchian of Italy. Although originally named as a separate species, "Panthera toscana" is now often recognized as an early form of "Panthera gombaszoegensis", the European jaguar.