• CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    In looks, maybe if you squint? Lions are felines; bears are not canines. They are not related.

    Coyotes and wolves are the wild equivalent, but they aren’t much bigger. I think the largest canines that exist today have been domesticated, like the Saint Bernard and the Great Dane. There are others, but those are the popular ones. Also, I think you could breed the wild out of coyotes and wolves if you tried. I’ve never heard of anyone keeping coyotes as pets, but wolves? Sure. Especially wolf cross-breeds with domesticated breeds.

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 hours ago

      You got it. Bears and dogs/wolves last shared a common ancestor around 55 million years ago, whereas lions and domestic cats had their ancestral split about 11M years ago.

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    People overthinking this and making so many technical qualifier as to why OP is wrong. It’s just a comparison of two pairs of species that are only a handful of clades removed that share similar body plans. It’s not a correct or incorrect statement. Just OP’s observation.

    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      Well, there really isn’t a canine equivalent to what lions are compared to cats. Dogs are directly descended from wolves but cats are descended from African wildcats, not big cats.

      • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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        Depends on the breed, no? A Newfie bear may very well walk you whereas a Dackel bear is easy to walk.