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  • Title: Bone accumulation by leopards in the Late Pleistocene in the Moncayo massif (Zaragoza, NE Spain).
    Author: Sauqué V, Rabal-Garcés R, Sola-Almagro C, Cuenca-Bescós G.
    Journal: PLoS One; 2014; 9(3):e92144. PubMed ID: 24642667.
    Abstract:
    Eating habits of Panthera pardus are well known. When there are caves in its territory, prey accumulates inside them. This helps to prevent its kill from being stolen by other predators like hyenas. Although the leopard is an accumulator of bones in caves, few studies have been conducted on existing lairs. There are, however, examples of fossil vertebrate sites whose main collecting agent is the leopard. During the Late Pleistocene, the leopard was a common carnivore in European faunal associations. Here we present a new locality of Quaternary mammals with a scarce human presence, the cave of Los Rincones (province of Zaragoza, Spain); we show the leopard to be the main accumulator of the bones in the cave, while there are no interactions between humans and leopards. For this purpose, a taphonomic analysis is performed on different bone-layers of the cave.
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