Figure 1.

The number of extant species of large (more than 10 kg in body weight) terrestrial carnivores in each family as well as the approximate number of species that has gone extinct since the Late Pleistocene on the major continents and the number of extant and approximate number of extinct species of different functional groups. (a) Africa, (b) Asia, (c) Europe, (d) North America, (e) South America. (a(i))–(e(i)) Taxonomic family and (a(ii))–(e(ii)) ecomorph. White bars, extinct; hatched bars, threatened; black bars, non-threatened. Species records underlying the figure are given in table S1 in the electronic supplementary material. Functional groups are defined by ecomorphs suggested by Werdelin (1996): SO, scavenger/omnivores; BCa, bone crackers; BCu, bone crushers; SA, stalk and ambush; AS, ambush and slash; P, pursuit.