Both feature australopithecine-type hominids being hunted by a predatory cat (Leopard or Dinofelis), being chased away from their homes by rival groups, feeding off a dead animal (Tapiar or Zebra), and the use of a bone or stick as a weapon. Also, in the book for 2001: A Space Odyssey, the leopard is killed by the hominids, and in Walking with Beasts the australopithecines rise up against the dinofelis and chase it away.