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Description
Common Name: Saber-toothed Cabbits
Common Name Synonyms: Saber-toothed Cat, Saber-toothed Tiger, Saber Lion, Sabertooth
Scientific Name: Smilodon fatalis
Size: 75-130cm tall in the shoulders, 150-260cm from snout to tail
Classification: Feliform
Habitat: Grasslands, Savannas, Deserts, Forests, Jungles, Swamps, Arctic
Diet: Omnivorous; diet consisted of bison, camels, mammoth and mastodon calves, horses, pigs, termites, fruits, vegetations, honey, ants, sloths, armadillos, anteaters, other Smilodons
Description: One of the world's famous prehistoric mammals, and the best known saber-toothed cats. Smilodon has been referred as "saber-toothed tiger," because it's roughly the size of a Korean Tiger(Panthera tigris altaica), but it is NOT closely related to tigers and/or modern cats. They lived in the Americas, during the Pleistocene time period, from 2.5 million to 10 thousand years ago, as the last members of the saber-toothed cats. Before Smilodon was the famous prehistoric felid, people thought that it was an American hyena, as close relatives to striped and brown hyenas, as Hyaena neogaea, until they found a big canine teeth, this long, along with the foot bones, that Lund did discovered the fossils of Smilodon is a felid, instead of a hyena. Saber-toothed Cats have been the same size as a lion, but much more robust, and has been described as these cats, with almost a sloping back, up from the shoulder, and down to its tail-base, due to their back legs, being almost the same size as their arms. Smilodon and other sabertooth cats had been reconstructed with plain colors, like a lion, others did depict that these cats had spots, really considered possible. Too much unusual that they depict that Smilodon had manes like a male lion, and/or with stripes like a tiger and the hyenas(except for spotted hyenas, which they are the only hyenas that had spots). Even more unusual, that some people depicted that Smilodon had long ears like a donkey, aardvark, or rabbit, and that males had a trunk, like a tapir, so this was more unusual to predict the fossil, and this is gonna be more of a funny-looking animal that looked like its a mix between a donkey, a tapir ,and a lion with a short tail. But enough about the male Smilodon being a funny-looking animal(seen in this picture), Smilodons are very social animals, which they lived in packs, called "prides," consisted of up to 6 members(males and females), their cubs, along within the elders, lead by a breeding pair(both alphas are male and female). Their cubs are born half-blind, and black, weaned within their mothers, and their tusk-like teeth are small. After few months later, the cubs had gain similar patterns of an adult, within their rosettes and stripes. If the cub was a male, then he gained his proboscis, like that of an elephant seal. Adults grows up to become an elder, which they lose their markings, except for the mask and dark throat patch. Some elders of the pride may stay with the pride, and some others moved out of the pride within a farewell to their fellow pride-mates, meaning that not all elders are solitary-but-social, some elders started their own pride, a senior pride. Like lions and spotted hyenas, the saber-toothed cabbits are excellent hunters, but some are complete scavengers. Not all these sabertoothed cats are carnivores, some are omnivores, making more of a diet, similar to sloth(Melursus ursinus) and grizzly bears(Ursus horribilis), which these cats can eat carrion, leaving the bones meatless. Also they use long, sticky, but spiky to lick ants and termites, and honey, without being stung by bees. The competitors and/or predators of Smilodon are terror birds, lions, bears, wolves, giant sloths, even jaguars, pumas, and other Smilodons who are rivals and/or enemies. The prides can get along with their ally prides, as they worked together, like baboons, which these cats can take down bigger prey, like bison, sloths, mastodons, bulldog bears, and even mammoths.

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995

Description
Common Name: Saber-toothed Cabbits
Common Name Synonyms: Saber-toothed Cat, Saber-toothed Tiger, Saber Lion, Sabertooth
Scientific Name: Smilodon fatalis
Size: 75-130cm tall in the shoulders, 150-260cm from snout to tail
Classification: Feliform
Habitat: Grasslands, Savannas, Deserts, Forests, Jungles, Swamps, Arctic
Diet: Omnivorous; diet consisted of bison, camels, mammoth and mastodon calves, horses, pigs, termites, fruits, vegetations, honey, ants, sloths, armadillos, anteaters, other Smilodons
Description: One of the world's famous prehistoric mammals, and the best known saber-toothed cats. Smilodon has been referred as "saber-toothed tiger," because it's roughly the size of a Korean Tiger(Panthera tigris altaica), but it is NOT closely related to tigers and/or modern cats. They lived in the Americas, during the Pleistocene time period, from 2.5 million to 10 thousand years ago, as the last members of the saber-toothed cats. Before Smilodon was the famous prehistoric felid, people thought that it was an American hyena, as close relatives to striped and brown hyenas, as Hyaena neogaea, until they found a big canine teeth, this long, along with the foot bones, that Lund did discovered the fossils of Smilodon is a felid, instead of a hyena. Saber-toothed Cats have been the same size as a lion, but much more robust, and has been described as these cats, with almost a sloping back, up from the shoulder, and down to its tail-base, due to their back legs, being almost the same size as their arms. Smilodon and other sabertooth cats had been reconstructed with plain colors, like a lion, others did depict that these cats had spots, really considered possible. Too much unusual that they depict that Smilodon had manes like a male lion, and/or with stripes like a tiger and the hyenas(except for spotted hyenas, which they are the only hyenas that had spots). Even more unusual, that some people depicted that Smilodon had long ears like a donkey, aardvark, or rabbit, and that males had a trunk, like a tapir, so this was more unusual to predict the fossil, and this is gonna be more of a funny-looking animal that looked like its a mix between a donkey, a tapir ,and a lion with a short tail. But enough about the male Smilodon being a funny-looking animal(seen in this picture), Smilodons are very social animals, which they lived in packs, called "prides," consisted of up to 6 members(males and females), their cubs, along within the elders, lead by a breeding pair(both alphas are male and female). Their cubs are born half-blind, and black, weaned within their mothers, and their tusk-like teeth are small. After few months later, the cubs had gain similar patterns of an adult, within their rosettes and stripes. If the cub was a male, then he gained his proboscis, like that of an elephant seal. Adults grows up to become an elder, which they lose their markings, except for the mask and dark throat patch. Some elders of the pride may stay with the pride, and some others moved out of the pride within a farewell to their fellow pride-mates, meaning that not all elders are solitary-but-social, some elders started their own pride, a senior pride. Like lions and spotted hyenas, the saber-toothed cabbits are excellent hunters, but some are complete scavengers. Not all these sabertoothed cats are carnivores, some are omnivores, making more of a diet, similar to sloth(Melursus ursinus) and grizzly bears(Ursus horribilis), which these cats can eat carrion, leaving the bones meatless. Also they use long, sticky, but spiky to lick ants and termites, and honey, without being stung by bees. The competitors and/or predators of Smilodon are terror birds, lions, bears, wolves, giant sloths, even jaguars, pumas, and other Smilodons who are rivals and/or enemies. The prides can get along with their ally prides, as they worked together, like baboons, which these cats can take down bigger prey, like bison, sloths, mastodons, bulldog bears, and even mammoths.

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka Patchi1995