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The canines wouldn't have been exposed when the mounth was closed, but at least the build is right. And populator was scary huge

The canines wouldn't have been exposed when the mounth was closed, but at least the build is right. And populator was scary huge | image tagged in smilodon,smilodon populator,smilodon fatalis,pleistocene,wiped out by humans | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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0 ups, 1mo,
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''Wiped out by humans''
Actually thats incorrect, they went extinct after the megafauna, their primary food source, went extinct.
0 ups, 1mo,
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False.
They were wiped out by humans indirectly and directly. Yes, humans wiped out their food source. But they also hunted them just like they hunted other predators: for food, as a threat to humans, and also for practices such as puberty rights, as something with a pair of canines like that would have been one heck of a prize to mark Jr entering manhood.
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False, no fossil evidence has been found of that. And Smilodons would have not been hunted for food due to their poor nutrition value and how dangerous they are to hunt. Though hunting for trophies would have been somewhat possible, it takes more than that to drove a species to extinction.
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Ironic, as I just passed your meme claiming that Neanderthal males habitually raped homosapien females, conjecture you insist on with absolutely no evidence.

Humans didn't hunt Mastodons either because the flavor of their meat lent by the spruce they ate, nor did they eat Ground Sloths because their diet of arid scrub also made their meat also unpalatable.
- or so they said, till they found evidence indicating otherwise.

Humans routinely hunt carnivorous animals. They do it today, and they sure weren't that picky thousands of years ago when they weren't any stores to go buy food at.
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Carnivorous mammals are mostly hunted to decrease the competion, not for food. Thats what prey animals are for.

Also never said that male Neanders ALWAYS rped female humans. But the thats how many of the matings may have happened.
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People eat carnivorous mammals all the time.

The consumption of many Cetaceans nearly wiped them all out.

Pinnipeds - Nunavut is famous for its pickled walrus delicacy, and the name "Eskimo" used to refer to the Inuit is considered derogatory, as it was a term that originated with other indigenous referring to them as "Eaters of rotten seal meat," which they commonly did. The traditional Inuit diet was mainly carnivorous, comprising of fish, seals, walruses, whales, and polar bears.

Dogs and cats - DOMESTICATED dogs and cats - are routinely consumed by many cultures. Goodness, the Torah and Quran had to make the eating of dogs a sin in order to stop it.

There were dogs in pre-colonial America that were raised to be evil eaten. The Spanish liked the Taino's Aon so much, word has it they ate it into extinction. Lewis and Clark ate dogs in their travels. Koreans eat over 2 million dogs a year.
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-Cetaceans and pinnipeds have blubber, and most are not top predators.

-Dogs and cats: those are rarely eaten worldwide and are eaten more in traditions than as main food sources.

-Polar bears: Only inuit people have been known to hunt them. Also remember that the inuit live in a region with barely any vegetation, while most pleistocene humans lived in areas with high vegetation.

-No evidence eating of dangerous predators by pleistocene humans has been found.
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Moving the goalposts.
You said carnivorous mammals, they are carnivorous mammals, and other than occasional predation from polar bears on their young or killer whales, they're the top of their food chain. Mind you, not only are they predators, but what they feed on are predators that feed on other predators too. One reason why their blubber, which you brought up, has surprisingly high level of PCBs and other human created pollutants.

2 million dogs annually in just one country is not rarely. Nor is that the only country today. And, again, prior to the colonial era, they were a staple of the diet in two entire continents.

You keep repeating the same bogus nonsense as if eventually it'll stick to something.
It won't.
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But there is no evidence on predation on large predatory mammals. Specially ines that are highly dangerous and/or live in groups.
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Cave lion skeleton with wound indicating that it was killed by Neandertals around 48,000 years ago with a spear like the replica shown.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-hunt-cave-lion-skeleton-first-direct-evidence
0 ups, 1mo,
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Yes, there was/is.

Look up "puberty rites" in anthropology.
Look up "necklaces and other ornaments made out of canines and claws" traditionally made by various indigenous people.
0 ups, 1mo
And from which predators exactñy do they belong to?? Also you realize they may have been gotten from carcasses right??? Also a few predators being killed wont mean the entire species suffered.
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