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Saber Toothed Tigers

Saber toothed tiger is the common name of a number of extinct prehistoric felids often misconceived as tigers. Characterized by grossly oversized canine teeth, these fierce predators were a powerful force to reckoned with, and have come to captain prehistoric predators in the common mind.

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What are the descendents of a saber-toothed tiger?

Saber toothed cats have no modern descendants.

Although modern cats and saber-toothed cats both belong to the family Felidae, modern cats are from the sub-families Pantherinae (like lions and tigers from the genus Panthera and clouded leopards from the genus Neofelis) and Felinae (like servals, lynxes, ocelots, cougars, cheetahs, and house cats) while all saber toothed cats were from the completely separate and now extinct sub-family Machairodontinae.

How did the Sabre toothed tigers get extincted?

Sabertooth cats have been extinct for 10,000 years. And they were not tigers, only very distant relatives.

The exact causes are debated but loss of habitat is a good guess. Scarcity of prey might be another (humans might have taken lots of animals that the saber-tooth could have eaten)

What do saber tooth tiger eat?

The primary prey of saber toothed tigers were big game animals. They would have hunted deer, bison, camelops (an extinct species of North American camel), and even mammoths and giant ground sloths. At the end of the ice age, many of these large prey animals that the saber toothed cat depended on died out, and the saber toothed cat became extinct.

What toth is bigger a smilodons tooth or the saber-toothed tiger?

There were many species of saber toothed cat, and they were all a different size. However, one of the most famous species, Smilodon fatalis, was similar to a Siberian tiger in size. S. fatalis was about 3 ft high at the shoulder, and weighed 350 to 620 lbs.

Is a saber-toothed tiger a decomposer or a consumer?

the answer is the bangal tiger is a consumer and a carnivore the answer is the bangal tiger is a consumer and a carnivore the answer is the bangal tiger is a consumer and a carnivore

When a saber-toothed cat was last seen?

Saber toothed cat remains have been found in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. There were a variety of different species, each of which lived at a different place and time. The last saber toothed cats were Smilodon, which lived in North and South America up until 10,000 years ago.

Could the mammoth kill a saber-toothed tiger?

Yes. A large pack of saber-tooth tigers often hunt and kill a woolly mammoth out of defense and prey to eat if the woolly mammoth is alone. They work together to kill the woolly mammoth by stabbing their fangs and clawing the woolly mammoth down.

How do the saber-toothed tiger anatomy?

The body parts of a Saber-toothed Tiger that were impressive was the massive muscles in their body. Another body part of the Sabor-toothed tiger that make the animal impressive were the bone shattering canine teeth.

Where do saber-toothed tigers hunt?

Saber tooth tiger is are gone from big rock called Earth.

What is the food web of a saber-toothed tiger?

Judging by the time period and palce that the Saber-Toothed Cat had lived in, it would've been at the top of the food chain. Even though the Mammoth lived in the same time period as the Saber-Toothed Cat, and was bigger and stronger than it, it wouldn't have been on the top of the Food Chain because it isn't a carnivore. A Mammoth would be a primary and/or secondary consumer, and a Saber-Toothed Cat would've been the Tertiary and/or higher Consumer

Are saber-toothed tiger related to tigers?

It is very possible sabre tooth tigers actually had teeth. In the movie Ice Age, the sabre tooth tiger had two (or one) long, sharp, front teeth. This can be called a theory. But this is proof that the sabre tooth tiger might've had teeth.

What sound does the saber-toothed tiger make?

The Sabertooth tiger has been extinct for about 15,000 years, and there was no written languages we know of at that time, so early man had no way of passing on to us the sound he heard from the sabertooth. But given it's similarities in most ways to the the modern large cats, we can probably assume it sounded much like a tiger sounds today.

What year did the saber tooth cat go extinct?

the saber tooth cat went extinct when all of the other megafauna animals it hunted died out too in the ice age

What could kill a saber-toothed tiger?

A comet strike (actually seven) around 10,000 years ago caused global tsunami waves over 5Km high that flooded the entire continents of North and South America (and most of the world for that matter) wiping out most of the large mammals. (i.e. mastadons, giant sloths, sabertooth tigers, etc.) Many history books will tell you that it was around this same time that agriculture began, animals became domesticated, and civilizations popped up around the world. I believe it's more likely that all of these things restarted after the strike, the subsequent deluge, and the atomic winter that followed. This is the basis for many flood legends from around the world, not that of Noah however, his story originated from a comet strike localized to the mediteranean area a little over 5,000 years ago. Others have speculated that the lost city of Atlantis actually existed (perhaps not as gloriously as the survivors of the flood remember) but was drowned when the global sea levels rose after the comet strike 10,000 years ago. The strike sped up the melting of the last ice age and as the 2km thick layer of ice covering much of the Northern hemisphere melted, global sea levels rose dramatically swallowing up many ancient civilizations (i.e. underwater ruins in Japan, the Carribean) and of course covering the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland and changing the coastline of North America forever. Look at satelite images of the continent to get an idea of how much land was swallowed up as sea levels rose. My reccomendation is to read "Uriel's Machine" to explore this theory in more detail and discover many more substantiating facts.

Is the cave lion bigger than the saber-toothed cat?

No a liger is twice the size of a Siberian tiger but ligers are so big they can't survive in the wild due to it's massive body

How did the saber-toothed cat die?

The sabertooth cat died due to a change in their natural environment as the latest ice age came to an end, which made the climate a lot warmer, in which the species couldn't adapt to, which again resulted as the extinction of the species.

Which is taller a saber-toothed tiger or a liger?

Lions are taller than any sub-species of Tiger. Bengal Tigers tend to be taller than Siberians and Indian Lions are shorter than African Lions. Height varies depending on the sub-species. But generally Lions are taller, whilst Tigers tend to be shorter but longer and overall bigger. On the back legs, however, the tiger is noticaby taller.

How did the saber-toothed tigers fight each other?

We have absolutely no idea. We have excellent fossil knowledge of that epoch, but little way of knowing the individual social habits of the animals that populated it.

Where did saber-toothed cats live?

There were many different species of saber toothed cats, and each one lived in a different area. Saber toothed cat fossils have been found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica. The most famous genus, Smilodon, lived in North and South America up until about 10,000 years ago.

Where did saber-toothed tigers sleep?

They slept when were done eating after hunting. They slept on there side with their mouth open. Their whiskers told them if danger was near while they were sleeping. If danger was near they would wake up and attack the intruder.

What do you call a group of saber-toothed tigers?

Scientists have chosen to treat the saber tooth tigers as a semi-relative of the big cat species we are familiar with today, using the same names for the different relationships found in today's big cats.

Therefore, a group of saber tooth tigers would be called a pride.

Is there another name for a saber-toothed tiger?

There are many species of saber tooth cats such as Smilodon, Megapotherous and Barberfelis.

How do Saber-toothed tiger adapt?

The specialized parts of the saber tooth cat are its powerful muscles, a jaw that can open 90 degrees, and long upper canines. Those features made saber tooth cats excellent natural hunters. Their large size and musculature makes them an apex predator, so they don't have to worry about any other animals, like American lions and flat faced bears.

Could saber tooth tigers be pets?

Females bred in early spring and could have a litter of 3 cubs.