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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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How much is a saber-toothed tiger tooth worth?

I am guessing a lot. Look up a famous archaeologist and contact he/she for details.

Last saber-toothed tiger died when?

no one knows exactly when but we estimate about 4 thousand years ago

Do sabertooth cats hibernate?

Saber toothed tigers have been extinct for about 11,000 years but did not hibernate when they were still extant.

Why didn't the lions teeth stay long like the saber-toothed cat?

I think it's because the sabre tooth cats had a special gene which only connected to their species as for they didn't mate with any other species. Lions have genes passed down from house-cat to wild-cat to lion.

Was the saber tooth tigers scared of water?

Modern day tigers actually enjoy water, so there is no reason to believe that the saber tooth was any different.

Which universal principle is illustrated by the saber-toothed curriculum?

The change of a curriculum to meet the needs required by the environment

A video clip of a tiger and a saber-toothed tiger fighting?

That couldn't be true. Saber tooth tigers were extinct before videos. They died out a long time ago. That couldn't be true. Saber tooth tigers were extinct before videos. They died out a long time ago.

How big were saber-toothed tigers?

These prehistoric animals were supposed to have a length of about 6 feet and weighed around 500 lbs.

Did hunters hunt the saber-toothed tiger for its fur?

We don't really know, but it's likely not a reason they would have been hunted. Saber toothed cats would have competed with humans of the time, would have been difficult to kill, offered less than palatable meat. But modern humans have hunted big cats in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe (the European lion was hunted to extinction before the advent of firearms) with little more than nets and bladed weapons for millennia.

Is a saber tooth tiger warm-blooded?

Saber toothed cats were warm blooded because they are mammals. The advantages of being warm blooded are that an animal can be active without needing to be in a warm temperature, and this allows mammals to live even in cold climates.

What do saber-toothed cats like to hunt for?

Saber-toothed cats, such as Smilodon, primarily hunted large herbivores, including mammoths, bison, and large deer. Their powerful build and elongated canine teeth were adapted for ambushing and delivering fatal bites to their prey. They likely targeted animals that were vulnerable or injured, using their strength and stealth to capture them. This hunting strategy allowed them to thrive in the diverse ecosystems of the Pleistocene epoch.

How do you say saber-toothed tiger in french?

A saber toothed tiger is 'un tigre aux dents de sabre' in French.

What kind of landscape did saber-toothed tigers live?

sabre tooth tigres lived in aisa and canada. they were coverd in pink fur and they loved to kiss there wives

Did Fred flintstone have a pet saber-toothed tiger?

That was the cat that got put out at night in the credits. Fred always ended up outside instead, yelling "Wilma!"

What can people do to help the saber-toothed tiger?

Not a thing, at this point. The saber tooth tiger became extinct some 10 to 20 thousand years ago.