interview with the Wiesbaden-based science writer Ernst Probst author, pocket books "cave lions. Wild cats in Ice Age "and" saber-toothed cats. From Machairodus to Smilodon "
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question: Why do you have two pocket books on cave lions, and saber-toothed cats - formerly known as saber-toothed tiger - written and published
Answer: SHOULD I live in the Wiesbaden city circuit fault I live only a few kilometers from?. the world-famous Mosbach-Sanden away, named after the former village Mosbach between Wiesbaden and Biebrich In these approximately 600.000 years old river sediments from a warm section of the Ice Age have been found numerous teeth and bones of wild cats
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question..: What big cats have been demonstrated from the Mosbach-Sanden?
Answer: In Mosbach-Sanden are remnants of the huge Mosbacher lion (Panthera leo fossilis), were found the lions large saber-toothed cat (Homotherium crenatidens), the European Law of Jaguar (Panthera leo gombaszoegensis) and the Cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis). The original finds are kept at the Natural History Museum in Mainz, Wiesbaden and in the museum at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main. Other German Fossilienfundstättten from the ice age you know the way, and the leopard and even the Puma.
* Question: Which of these big cats have been alive at the greatest?
Answer: most impressive wild cat from the Mosbach-Sanden Mosbacher was the lion. He reached - according to calculations by scientists - a total length up to 3.60 meters, of which about 1.20 meters on his tail accounted for, and perhaps a shoulder height of up to 1.50 meters. Today's lions in Africa are about two feet shorter. From the Mosbacher lions, which seemed before about 700000-300000 years in Europe, the cave lion (Panthera leo fossilis) is formed.
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question: Did they discovered in Germany over the remains of Mosbacher of cave lions or lion?
Answer: The locations of the Mosbacher lions in Germany can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Other hand, we know from the cave lions at least 100 sites in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Hamburg, Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg and Berlin.
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question: Which German state known to most sites of cave lions?
Answer: Judging by the finds, Bavaria was a true "paradise for cave lions". There are known 27 sites of cave lion from North Rhine-Westphalia 21, from Baden-Württemberg 15, from Saxony-Anhalt, 10, from Thuringia 8, from Hesse 7, from Lower Saxony 5, Rhineland-Palatinate 3, from Brandenburg 3, and from Saxony 2. In the cities, in which fossils of cave lions came to the fore, and are Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, Leipzig, Hamburg and Berlin. Other hand, in Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern yet found a cave lion.
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question: At what German locality were the remains of cave lions to the fore most?
Answer: Nowhere on Earth are more teeth and bones of cave lions were recovered than in the Zoolithenhöhle of Burggaillenreuth at Muggendorf in Franconian Switzerland (Bayern). There they found the remains of about 30 cave lions. The cave lion with the scientific name Panthera leo spelaea 1810 is by the physician and paleontologist Goldfuß Georg August (1782-1848), who has been at times described in Erlangen and later lived in Bonn, after a skull from the Fund Zoolithenhöhle first time and named.
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Question: Which saber-toothed cats are known from Germany?
Answer: The answer is somewhat confusing, because the scientists distinguish today between saber-toothed cats and dagger toothed cats. In the Miocene about 10 to 8.5 million years ago lived in Germany, the saber-toothed cats Machairodus aphanistus in the Ice Ages, about 600.000 to 11.700 years, the large saber-toothed cat Homotherium initially crenatidens later, the small and nature Homotherium and latidens. Also known from Germany, the dagger-toothed cats occurring in the Miocene Paramacharodus ogygius Paramachairodus orientalis and and from the ice age Megantereon cultridens.
* Question: What fascinates you about the saber-toothed cats and dagger-toothed cats at the most?
Answer: I have quite taken with the large saber-toothed cats like Machairodus giganteus, the Tigers had quickly format, and the dagger-toothed cat Smilodon Populator special. The latter contributed up to 28 inches long canines. Both types exist - to judge by the finds - outside of Germany.
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question: Where to about Big cats from the mists of time to read?
Answer: In my pocket books "cave lions" and "saber-toothed cats," but in my pocketbook "The Ur-Rhine". Sample can be found at http://www.grin.de and http://books.google.de - In "GRIN" there are these titles as paperbacks printed and electronic e-books. Also possible to order the pocket books in any good bookstore, because these are important in the German book wholesalers, "Libri," and "KNO" available. They are also available in around 1.000 online book stores.
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Links:
cave lion Blog
http://hoehlenloewen-blog.blogspot.com
saber-toothed cat blog
http://saebelzahnkatzen-blog.blogspot.com
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