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A Lion (Death of a Dynasty)

Felidae is the biological family of the cats; a member of this family is called a felid. The most familiar felid is the domestic cat, which first became associated with humans about 10,000 years ago; but the family includes all other wild cats, including the big cats.

Facts[]

Extant felids belong to one of two subfamilies: Pantherinae (which includes the tiger, the lion, the jaguar, and the leopard), and Felinae (which includes the cougar, the cheetah, the lynxes, the ocelot, and the domestic cat).

The first felids emerged during the Oligocene, about 25 MYA. In prehistoric times, there was also a third subfamily, the Machairodontinae, that included the "saber-toothed cats", such as the well known Smilodon.

Smilodon-1

Half-Tooth

Other superficially cat-like mammals, such as the marsupial sabertooth Thylacosmilus or the Nimravidae, are not included in Felidae despite superficial similarities.

Felids are the strictest carnivores of the 13 terrestrial families in the order Carnivora, although the three families of marine mammals comprising the superfamily Pinnipedia are as carnivorous as the felids.

In Walking with... Series[]

Walking with Dinosaurs[]

Death of a Dynasty[]

The final scenes of this episode feature an African lion - a mammal that took over the role of a large carnivore from Tyrannosaurus, the main character of this episode.

Walking with Beasts[]

Next of Kin[]

This episode featured Dinofelis as the main protogonist.

Dinofelis Walking with Beasts

It harassed and killed several members of an Australopithecus clan, but was eventually driven away by them.

Sabre Tooth[]

This episode was centered on a Smilodon clan. The old head of the clan, Half-Tooth, was driven away by a pair of brothers, who took over his clan and killed his cubs. Eventually, though, a Megatherium killed one of the brothers, and Half-Tooth defeated the other brother, mortally wounding him in the process.

Mammoth Journey[]

This episode featured several cave lions.

Lion

One of the harassed a Woolly mammoth mother and her calf, while another pair killed a migrating human, but were forced to let a Woolly mammoth bull pass them by.

Walking with Cavemen[]

Blood Brothers[]

This episode featured a modern lion - it killed the leader of a Homo Habilis tribe as they attempted to steal its kill. It also featured stock image of Dinofelis from WWB.

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