Project Details
Project information, episodes and series intro.Age of Big Cats
About The Series.
In this unprecedented series, recent scientific discoveries shed new light on the extraordinary prehistory of big cats.
- DATE: : September 1, 2018
- CLIENT: : Ammonite ltd
- Credits : additional photography
The Pleistocene Era, when packs of saber-tooth ruled. The arrival of the new cats; early snow leopards, cheetahs, and jaguars, marked a turning point in the evolutionary track.
(Dominance - Lions and Tigers) Sabre tooth cats utterly dominated unchallenged, even by other felines. During the Pleistocene, early lions developed their success formula (in Africa), sprint-based social hunting mainly nocturnal, in order to defend themselves against that huge adversary and avoid its daytime competition. The arrival of Prehistoric humanoids ended the age of the saber tooth, which they hunted into extinction. Lions survived and took over as top cats, all over the old world, except in the Asian jungles and high grass lands. There the larger, solitary tiger rules supreme in large individual territories, specialized in stealth around drinking sites and with more stamina. Their nocturnal hunts may have started to avoid humanoids. In America the hole lion survived longer, leading to a different feline fauna.
What changes has the Earth has undergone through the eyes of the puma and leopard? From the almost complete disappearance of American wildlife to the rise of man and the industrialized and urban areas of the modern 21st century. Big cats face numerous threats to their survival.