The vulnerability of Smilodontini canines to breakages always seemed so bizarre to me because of the robustness of the family in general. To invest in such a powerful build capable of wrestling Pleistocene ungulates to the ground, only to skimp on the very adaptation required to seal the deal seems almost paradoxical. Obviously it's been a point of contention among experts ever since it was realized, but one palaeontologist (I wish I could remember who) described it in a sort of cool way that makes it somewhat understandable. Rather than being contradictory features, they compliment one-another. The musculature is used to prevent strain on the teeth, which are designed for rapid use and removal. Big cats' modus operandi involves clamping down on its prey's neck to crush the windpipe and/or cutoff circulation to the brain. While it can dispatch an animal relatively quickly, it comes with the risks involved in pinning a large and dangerous animal for the length of time required to kill it. There's an inherent danger of maiming or killing the cat, creating a situation in which selective pressure favours quicker kills. The ideal scenario requires a single, quick bite that causes enough damage to almost ensure death. This leads to an animal like Smilodon with such exaggerated canines that all it has to do is use its bulk and strength to momentarily pin its prey before it even attempts to bite the animal (unlike lions, for example, that often bite the neck in the process of pinning its prey), then in one downward thrust using its neck rather than jaw muscles it causes so much trauma to the neck that it can almost immediately retract, likely biting off a chunk in the process, but not necessarily, and then it can completely release its prey and step back, waiting for the animal to rapidly bleed-out. Almost any neck-bite using such large canines is going to be fatal; even if the cat has to follow its prey. It's almost as if they used a strategy somewhere between that of other big cats and venomous snakes. Though, rather than venom, the delayed death is a product of trauma.
Another cool thing about Sabre toothed animals is it wasn't just cats, in Australia there was a marsupial that adapted almost the exact same way so nature couldn't of been wrong twice lol
@@missourimongoose8858 Yeah, exactly. There was also another, entirely separate felid lineage that evolved sabre-like canines independently, as well as a therapsid group over 250 million years ago called Gorgonopsia that did the same. It's just one of those adaptations that are relatively simple to evolve and extremely successful, so it keeps popping up as unrelated groups converge on the same strategy. It's like how eyes or wings keep evolving independently because of how advantageous they are. It's what makes it all the more strange and unfortunate that we don't have any extant examples of the strategy.
@@shafqatishan437 Yeah, I know they weren't true cats, I was just screwing up my taxonomic ranks. When I mentioned the, "separate felid lineage," I was referring to Nimravids and Barbourofelidae, but I was mixing up _Felidae_ and _Feliformia,_ the former being the Family containing only true cats and the latter being the Suborder I should've used, which includes all carnivorans closer to true cats than to dogs, such as the two clades I mentioned.
It's a great day when the "Attenborough" of the Paleo World uploads a video. I always get chills when I see the remains of these and other ancient predators.
Thanks Mr. Kirkpatrick. I also had been baffled by the large canine being overly brittle. I thought " of course all of those huge animals struggled mightily...Saber Tooth cats would have been losing their Sabers constantly. The explanation you gave is perfect...now I get it. He held his prey with his claws and superior strength only inserting his Sabers while in complete control. There was no risk of breakage. I have been fascinated with Saber Tooth Tigers ( Smilodon) since my youth long ago.
Your presentations of the lesser known extinct species are the best. I've been researching Bear Dogs, Creodonts and other early mammals for years. Finding your channel was the jackpot. May I ask what background music are you playing in your videos? It reminds me of the tune played in Basil Rathbone's (1939)"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" Moriarty's Inca flute music..
Thank you! I’m glad to hear that you’re also an obscure extinct animal enthusiast. The background music in this video is called ‘Hozen Theme’ and it comes from the World of Warcraft Pandaria soundtrack.
Ancient felines are so interesting to learn about! There are a surprisingly large number of extant species, a few mentioned here like the cave lion. It is like we humans just barely missed a chance to interact with these animals by the smallest of margins. Thanks for the great video.
Loving your vids! I especially like how you cover more obscure prehistoric groups. I especially find the Cenozoic interesting as it gets less attention than dinosaurs. It is also hard to imagine that smilodon only became extinct 11,000 years ago, which is just yesterday in prehistoric time, making it just as modern as today's species!
The two Smilodon species really are animals I wish were with us today. Especially since S. fatalis at minimum was better suited for warmer, more vegetated habitats, meaning that it’s actually better suited for the current climate than that of the last glacial.
Excellent video production! Information you don't get everyday very well explained. I also liked artists drawings throughout that give an idea of what these creatures looked like.
I have studied numerous specimens of both Megantereon from Asia and Smilodon graclis from Florida. These specimens are nearly identical in skeletal details and are probably genetically extremely close. Having specimens of the rare Rhizosmilus fitei, they are extremely close in physiology to Promegantereon. They are both geologically identical in age. I believe that these cats ranged over Africa, Asia, and North America. I feel that paleontologists are biased based on the country of their origin, giving preference to their specific nomenclature. It has recently been recognized that late Pleistocene Homotherium DNA suggests that these cats ranged over great distances from Eurasia and throughout North America. Our scientific community should be encouraged to include a far greater range of specimens when describing new species. However, identification can be frustrating as these fossil cats' specimens are so rare and fragmentary that it makes comparison frequently difficult. However, I believe a picture is emerging that many of these taxa are genetically identical and ranged over several continents.
Smilodontini are one of the most iconic prehistoric animals. My favourite among them is probably megantereon due to its range and more interesting ecological niche.
A fascinating look into the basal forms and transitional species of these amazing critters. Glad I found your channel to add to my ancient critter channels, like North 02, Stefan Milo, Ben G, Raptor Chatter, etc., as I really enjoy those of you who cover the lesser known beasties! (Edited for clarity)
Quite interesting how saber teeth are a constant feature in the evolutionary history of Synapsids ! From Biarmosuchia ( basal Therapsids ) to Machairodontinae/Thylacosmilidae ( Mammals True )
One of the adaptations that Smilodontini made in reaction to the chance of saber tooth breakage was to live as clans. That way older members of the group would still be fed by the group. We know about this because they are found in groups and the individuals who had broken a tooth lived on for sometime after the accident.
Although there was a book that mentioned that Smilodon‘s brain was that of a jaguar than a lion, so this means that this animal was a solitary hunter, there are some individual cats that have survived terrible injuries by themselves There was an African leopard that survived a warthog attack and live to tell the tale
I absolutely agree with you. The next video will cover the very early history of paleoart, stopping just before the discovery of American dinosaurs which shifted how these animals were depicted. I’ll be covering Knight and others when I get to the period of the Bone Wars.
Smilodon actually had strong jaws and teeth there is a skull in a South American museum of two cats with a hole found in the top caused by other smilodon
There had to have been one last generation of hominids to have witnessed these creatures alive. They were completely unaware they could wipe out an entire lineage of creatures from the world, but we don't have that excuse anymore.
Saw a video here on YT years ago that showed some research that Sabre cats evolve out of the existing cat species of the time, they do not come from a common line. Their example was that the Clouded Leopard may be evolving into the next Sabre cat. It's fangs have got longer over the last many 1000s of years.
Smilodons may be weak bite compared to modern big cats but it's bite is lethal and brutal. Once it bites it's prey to the neck or belly it also pulls out a huge chunk of meat by the help of it's strong neck and upper body.
At 14:34, you state "it can be implied from the bite marks". No, it cannot. it can be INFERRED. Implication is done by the speaker or writer. Inference is done by the listener, reader, or examiner of evidence. Drawing conclusions from evidence is inference, not implication.
I actually have a skull of Smilodon fatalis and I would one day would love to get a Skull of popuater just to see how big it is with my American lion skull from bone clones
12:23 This raises three questions. 1. Wouldn't they have to be wary of the large short-faced bear Arctotherium? 2. Why and how can both species of Smilodon live in South America without going into direct competition (or even interaction) with each other? (I think the Andes Mountains may be one reason) 3. Is it possible that these two species may have occasionally cross-bred each other?
Their overlap with Arctotherium was minimal at best, with populator only emerging after the extinction of the colossal bear. Fatalis and populator were separated by the Andes, with the former only inhabiting the very northeast of the continent.
Smilodon, and hands down. They were built for grappling megafauna. Their claws were massive and bigger than lions or tigers and their bones were thicker and heavier as we're their muscles.
You could improve commentary by allowing some breathing space between sentences and phrases to allow listeners better opportunity to absorb content and view accompanying visuals. It isn't a race to the end.
If smilodon and hominids competed for food, I wonder why hominids couldn't find ways to domesticate smilodon as they could with canine rivals; especially if smilodon did have "social group" behaviors.
Domestication of animals is hit-and-miss even when similar animals are targeted for domestication. Wolves can be tamed, however its pack living cousins the dhole and African wild dog haven’t been domesticated.
Considering that even house cats self-domesticated rather than being intentionally bred, and haven’t changed nearly as much in behaviour as domestic dogs have, could you even domesticate a felid to the same extent as humans have domesticated wolves?
@@bkjeong4302 Ideally you would want a species that lives in packs/social units for domestication at least if you wanted an animal to the same degree as a dog. Only problem is that with 1 major exception cats don’t live in big social units in the way canids do, and lions likely won’t ever be domesticated. So hypothetically if their were a small species of closely knit pack hunting cat it would make for something closer to a dog in terms of domestication, but unfortunately to my knowledge no cat extinct or extant like that exists.
@@bkjeong4302 Given that their method of taking down prey was different from modern cats - could their behaviors also be different enough from modern cats to allow domestication? Or.... is that a bit too much speculative thinking?
Indeed Smilodon fatalis did live in the forest in an open woodland areas that’s why they’re very common at the tar pits same with the dire wolf although the dire wolf lived in the planes that’s why we don’t see the other two predators like the giant short face bear and the American lion
Just saying but out of all the saber toothed cats the tribe smilodonti is my favorite and the reason is because of their name dirk toothed cats and it’s my favorite because you see I play in a pipe and drum band that is named after the black watch aka the 3rd battalion of the royal regiment of Scotland and you see in 2019 I was nominated best drummer and as a reward for the nomination I was given my very own dirk which is the dagger that you can see in my profile picture.
All Modern Cats are equally genetically distant from Saber Tooth Cats, who come from a very distinct sub-branch of the Cat Family that split off from all other Cats very early in their evolution.
So...he would have held the ancient human tightly in his muscled grip...the humanoid predator...unable to even struggle against the power of the greater predator...held tight in a vise-like grip...and only when he was sure that the primate Was immobilized did he insert the deadly Sabers 😳.
Was the primate or hominid population kept in areas and where unable to spread because of the large amount of prey and in return large populations of different types predators flourished . Maybe it made us evolve faster because of that struggle . or slowed it , and adaption was stunted by less chances to change by low offspring
Before I even watch this I knew exactly what the lion the large cat is more akin to, which is a bear, the true cat is more of a jaguar a small animal The larger the more bear like it is. Prove me wrong
Silly Hooman! We isn’t gone! We Siameses are the very last Machairodontines! We getsed smaller and let you Hoomans think we is Feline catsies but we Siameses are Nanosmilodon not Felis! We decideds to fool you Hoomans by pretending to be Feline catsies. So you’d let us move in when all the big animals we eatsed disappeared! We is little now but we still has our huge fangses. We is glad we moved in with you Hoomans cause you is clever and can make fire, build houses and domesticated chickenses! Chickenses is our favourite food! So remember Hoomans don’t call us Siameses Felis domesticus! We is Nanosmilodon imperator and if you Hoomans argue I shall come and bites you! Then you’ll believe we is Machairodontine catsies! Love from Sabiney Sabres ❤️ (My Siamese Sabiney is telling you this story)
The vulnerability of Smilodontini canines to breakages always seemed so bizarre to me because of the robustness of the family in general. To invest in such a powerful build capable of wrestling Pleistocene ungulates to the ground, only to skimp on the very adaptation required to seal the deal seems almost paradoxical. Obviously it's been a point of contention among experts ever since it was realized, but one palaeontologist (I wish I could remember who) described it in a sort of cool way that makes it somewhat understandable. Rather than being contradictory features, they compliment one-another. The musculature is used to prevent strain on the teeth, which are designed for rapid use and removal. Big cats' modus operandi involves clamping down on its prey's neck to crush the windpipe and/or cutoff circulation to the brain. While it can dispatch an animal relatively quickly, it comes with the risks involved in pinning a large and dangerous animal for the length of time required to kill it. There's an inherent danger of maiming or killing the cat, creating a situation in which selective pressure favours quicker kills. The ideal scenario requires a single, quick bite that causes enough damage to almost ensure death. This leads to an animal like Smilodon with such exaggerated canines that all it has to do is use its bulk and strength to momentarily pin its prey before it even attempts to bite the animal (unlike lions, for example, that often bite the neck in the process of pinning its prey), then in one downward thrust using its neck rather than jaw muscles it causes so much trauma to the neck that it can almost immediately retract, likely biting off a chunk in the process, but not necessarily, and then it can completely release its prey and step back, waiting for the animal to rapidly bleed-out. Almost any neck-bite using such large canines is going to be fatal; even if the cat has to follow its prey. It's almost as if they used a strategy somewhere between that of other big cats and venomous snakes. Though, rather than venom, the delayed death is a product of trauma.
Another cool thing about Sabre toothed animals is it wasn't just cats, in Australia there was a marsupial that adapted almost the exact same way so nature couldn't of been wrong twice lol
@@missourimongoose8858 Yeah, exactly. There was also another, entirely separate felid lineage that evolved sabre-like canines independently, as well as a therapsid group over 250 million years ago called Gorgonopsia that did the same. It's just one of those adaptations that are relatively simple to evolve and extremely successful, so it keeps popping up as unrelated groups converge on the same strategy. It's like how eyes or wings keep evolving independently because of how advantageous they are. It's what makes it all the more strange and unfortunate that we don't have any extant examples of the strategy.
Everyone forgets that their teeth are sharp and serrated. They could easily slice through like swords. They don't need crushing jaw power for that.
@@Len124 Nimravids were also not true cats.
@@shafqatishan437 Yeah, I know they weren't true cats, I was just screwing up my taxonomic ranks. When I mentioned the, "separate felid lineage," I was referring to Nimravids and Barbourofelidae, but I was mixing up _Felidae_ and _Feliformia,_ the former being the Family containing only true cats and the latter being the Suborder I should've used, which includes all carnivorans closer to true cats than to dogs, such as the two clades I mentioned.
It's a great day when the "Attenborough" of the Paleo World uploads a video. I always get chills when I see the remains of these and other ancient predators.
Thanks Mr. Kirkpatrick. I also had been baffled by the large canine being overly brittle. I thought " of course all of those huge animals struggled mightily...Saber Tooth cats would have been losing their Sabers constantly. The explanation you gave is perfect...now I get it. He held his prey with his claws and superior strength only inserting his Sabers while in complete control. There was no risk of breakage. I have been fascinated with Saber Tooth Tigers ( Smilodon) since my youth long ago.
No one can match Attenborough. He's a legend with a class of his own.
Really grateful for the coverage of lesser known extinct creatures!
I've been looking for this kind of educational entertainment for quite a while
Your presentations of the lesser known extinct species are the best. I've been researching Bear Dogs, Creodonts and other early mammals for years. Finding your channel was the jackpot. May I ask what background music are you playing in your videos? It reminds me of the tune played in Basil Rathbone's (1939)"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" Moriarty's Inca flute music..
Thank you! I’m glad to hear that you’re also an obscure extinct animal enthusiast. The background music in this video is called ‘Hozen Theme’ and it comes from the World of Warcraft Pandaria soundtrack.
@@dr.polaris6423 Your material is often copied by other channels. But, never duplicated. Keep up the good work.
@@Aridzonan13 you are two pea's in a pod
I lost my house, car, wife, children, and considerable wealth because I just can't stop watching Dr. Polaris videos.
Ancient felines are so interesting to learn about! There are a surprisingly large number of extant species, a few mentioned here like the cave lion. It is like we humans just barely missed a chance to interact with these animals by the smallest of margins. Thanks for the great video.
Loving your vids! I especially like how you cover more obscure prehistoric groups. I especially find the Cenozoic interesting as it gets less attention than dinosaurs. It is also hard to imagine that smilodon only became extinct 11,000 years ago, which is just yesterday in prehistoric time, making it just as modern as today's species!
Crazy to think the Ancient Egyptians are just a little nearer to us than to smilodon
@@Sawrattan It is also crazy that mammoths were still around when the Egyptians were building their pyramids!
The two Smilodon species really are animals I wish were with us today. Especially since S. fatalis at minimum was better suited for warmer, more vegetated habitats, meaning that it’s actually better suited for the current climate than that of the last glacial.
Smilodontins are my favourite sabre-toothed cats.
I think than counts for most people
Personally I like metalurini
Sorry if I misspelled it
Yaaaas!
I’ve had a fascination with these predators since about age 5.
Man I'm glad you covered these guys! Smilodon is one my favorite animals of all time!
"fangs very much"
@@hugoclarke3284 That and Gorgonopsids, actually I probably like them as mutch if not slightly more.
Enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up as a support
Amazing video! I have been enjoying your channel a lot.👍
Excellent video production! Information you don't get everyday very well explained. I also liked artists drawings throughout that give an idea of what these creatures looked like.
I have studied numerous specimens of both Megantereon from Asia and Smilodon graclis from Florida. These specimens are nearly identical in skeletal details and are probably genetically extremely close. Having specimens of the rare Rhizosmilus fitei, they are extremely close in physiology to Promegantereon. They are both geologically identical in age. I believe that these cats ranged over Africa, Asia, and North America. I feel that paleontologists are biased based on the country of their origin, giving preference to their specific nomenclature. It has recently been recognized that late Pleistocene Homotherium DNA suggests that these cats ranged over great distances from Eurasia and throughout North America. Our scientific community should be encouraged to include a far greater range of specimens when describing new species. However, identification can be frustrating as these fossil cats' specimens are so rare and fragmentary that it makes comparison frequently difficult. However, I believe a picture is emerging that many of these taxa are genetically identical and ranged over several continents.
Smilodontini are one of the most iconic prehistoric animals. My favourite among them is probably megantereon due to its range and more interesting ecological niche.
A fascinating look into the basal forms and transitional species of these amazing critters. Glad I found your channel to add to my ancient critter channels, like North 02, Stefan Milo, Ben G, Raptor Chatter, etc., as I really enjoy those of you who cover the lesser known beasties!
(Edited for clarity)
Subbed! Really fascinating stuff and I love how you covered many different species and even went into the specifics of how we know things like diet
I appreciate how we slowly make sense how those teeth worked. No more "teeth too fragile to kill with, they died out when proper cats came along"
Sabretooth cats are one of my favorite extinct mammals.
Cool, thank you. Fascinating, and very well done.
I truly appreciate and enjoy all of your videos keep up the good work old chap and thank you very much
Yessssss another dr Polaris video
Fantastic video! Really looking forward to the new one
That thumbnail is stunning.. imagine seeing one of those in real life I would be shitting myself and trying to take photos at the same time
Quite interesting how saber teeth are a constant feature in the evolutionary history of Synapsids !
From Biarmosuchia ( basal Therapsids ) to Machairodontinae/Thylacosmilidae ( Mammals True )
I absalutely enjoy watching and learning from your wonderful videos
A Jaguar is the best representation of a cat.
Great stuff thanks for posting
I had to double take when you mentioned the find in Polk County Florida, as that is where I am born and raised lol
Smilodontini sounds like an interesting alcoholic beverage.
5:25
ugh!
It bit someone's head!
I live near Polk county! Had no idea there were fossils of smilodons of any kind there
One of the adaptations that Smilodontini made in reaction to the chance of saber tooth breakage was to live as clans. That way older members of the group would still be fed by the group. We know about this because they are found in groups and the individuals who had broken a tooth lived on for sometime after the accident.
Although there was a book that mentioned that Smilodon‘s brain was that of a jaguar than a lion, so this means that this animal was a solitary hunter, there are some individual cats that have survived terrible injuries by themselves There was an African leopard that survived a warthog attack and live to tell the tale
When are they cloning one?
I still love that intro music
I ABSALUTELY LOVE CATS
Really looking forward to the next episode, I love paleo-art :)
Beautiful art! Some of prehistoric scenes shown here could be framed and used as wall pictures.
Dr Polaris
I want to know what the intro logo (midnight sun production) is
Is it your own studio? Your sponsor? What is it?
Just something of my own creation not to be taken too seriously.
@@dr.polaris6423 thanks 👍🏽
This time frame you speak of was like a giant royal rumble! There were so many predators some had to die off period
Finally/liked and saved 😁..Hoplophumnus next please....
I like this video
10:18 Damn!!! 166,000 this proves how dominant Smilodon Fatalis was in North America apart from dire wolf.
I look forward to your paleoart video! Charles R. Knight's work was some of the first I ever saw, do you think you'll get to him at some point?
I absolutely agree with you. The next video will cover the very early history of paleoart, stopping just before the discovery of American dinosaurs which shifted how these animals were depicted. I’ll be covering Knight and others when I get to the period of the Bone Wars.
Smilodon actually had strong jaws and teeth there is a skull in a South American museum of two cats with a hole found in the top caused by other smilodon
It's bite was weak compared to pantherine cats. That doesn't mean it's jaws were useless and couldn't deal any damage.
No, their power was derived from their neck muscles, but their teeth were not fragile by any means.
Very nice speaking voice to explain this .
2:17 If they were capable climbers, would they also target any of the European apes?
(Pliobates and any of the Dryopithecines)
It’s certainly possible, although no ape fossil material has been recovered from the same sites as Promegantereon.
There had to have been one last generation of hominids to have witnessed these creatures alive. They were completely unaware they could wipe out an entire lineage of creatures from the world, but we don't have that excuse anymore.
What should I be looking for to understand Isotope analysis and how we are able to tell which animals were eaten.
this was fascinating
It would be nice getting similiar short series on small cats.
Nice channel
Saw a video here on YT years ago that showed some research that Sabre cats evolve out of the existing cat species of the time, they do not come from a common line. Their example was that the Clouded Leopard may be evolving into the next Sabre cat. It's fangs have got longer over the last many 1000s of years.
Smilodons may be weak bite compared to modern big cats but it's bite is lethal and brutal. Once it bites it's prey to the neck or belly it also pulls out a huge chunk of meat by the help of it's strong neck and upper body.
I got a mention. Thanks.
Very interesting!
Nice! When will you do another cryptid video?
At 14:34, you state "it can be implied from the bite marks". No, it cannot. it can be INFERRED. Implication is done by the speaker or writer. Inference is done by the listener, reader, or examiner of evidence. Drawing conclusions from evidence is inference, not implication.
i heard that the saber-tooth cat subfamily was more related to felinae than pantherinae. is this true?
They seem to have been more basal than either, diverging about 22 million years ago.
Saber toothed cats are just metal!
Epic cats,I love it
What's the art from 11:28 from?
I actually have a skull of Smilodon fatalis and I would one day would love to get a Skull of popuater just to see how big it is with my American lion skull from bone clones
Will you be covering the ursoidea?
Smilodon is my favorite of this group. My favorite subspecies of fatalis Indeed it was a throat slasher
Who is the artist who did the thumbnail???
The picture of the human Skull with the cat attached to it made me shiver, I wonder if thats an actual instinct being triggered...
12:23 This raises three questions.
1. Wouldn't they have to be wary of the large short-faced bear Arctotherium?
2. Why and how can both species of Smilodon live in South America without going into direct competition (or even interaction) with each other? (I think the Andes Mountains may be one reason)
3. Is it possible that these two species may have occasionally cross-bred each other?
Their overlap with Arctotherium was minimal at best, with populator only emerging after the extinction of the colossal bear. Fatalis and populator were separated by the Andes, with the former only inhabiting the very northeast of the continent.
Note that Arctotherium was omnivorous-separate niches.
If only I had you as a teacher.....
I kinda Interested to make retro paleological animations and I think gotta after you upload this video
Ever wonder what trying to eat would be like with those kinds of canines?
A wealth of information. One mamaprop in the script: 'implied' is used where 'inferred' would be correct.
nice
Wonder how would a confrontation a 600lbs smilodon vs sib tiger or african male lion would turn out
Money on Smilidon tbh. They're much more robust than pantherine cats
Smilodon, and hands down. They were built for grappling megafauna. Their claws were massive and bigger than lions or tigers and their bones were thicker and heavier as we're their muscles.
You could improve commentary by allowing some breathing space between sentences and phrases to allow listeners better opportunity to absorb content and view accompanying visuals. It isn't a race to the end.
Everyone should visit La Brea
If smilodon and hominids competed for food, I wonder why hominids couldn't find ways to domesticate smilodon as they could with canine rivals; especially if smilodon did have "social group" behaviors.
Domestication of animals is hit-and-miss even when similar animals are targeted for domestication. Wolves can be tamed, however its pack living cousins the dhole and African wild dog haven’t been domesticated.
Considering that even house cats self-domesticated rather than being intentionally bred, and haven’t changed nearly as much in behaviour as domestic dogs have, could you even domesticate a felid to the same extent as humans have domesticated wolves?
@@bkjeong4302 Ideally you would want a species that lives in packs/social units for domestication at least if you wanted an animal to the same degree as a dog. Only problem is that with 1 major exception cats don’t live in big social units in the way canids do, and lions likely won’t ever be domesticated. So hypothetically if their were a small species of closely knit pack hunting cat it would make for something closer to a dog in terms of domestication, but unfortunately to my knowledge no cat extinct or extant like that exists.
@@bkjeong4302 Given that their method of taking down prey was different from modern cats - could their behaviors also be different enough from modern cats to allow domestication?
Or.... is that a bit too much speculative thinking?
@@LeloniBunny that's more like wishful thinking.
They looks like liger or tiigon.
Good evening barkeep. I’ll have a Smilodontini please.
Very witty! Got a good laugh out of me when I saw this.
Indeed Smilodon fatalis did live in the forest in an open woodland areas that’s why they’re very common at the tar pits same with the dire wolf although the dire wolf lived in the planes that’s why we don’t see the other two predators like the giant short face bear and the American lion
The Saber Tooth said to the Erectus...
Shhh....quite ...No more struggles...only dreams now little one.
Just saying but out of all the saber toothed cats the tribe smilodonti is my favorite and the reason is because of their name dirk toothed cats and it’s my favorite because you see I play in a pipe and drum band that is named after the black watch aka the 3rd battalion of the royal regiment of Scotland and you see in 2019 I was nominated best drummer and as a reward for the nomination I was given my very own dirk which is the dagger that you can see in my profile picture.
Dose anybody know what is the closest living relative to the saber-tooth cat?
All Modern Cats are equally genetically distant from Saber Tooth Cats, who come from a very distinct sub-branch of the Cat Family that split off from all other Cats very early in their evolution.
Please do cryptid video again
2 ituapasihsebenrnt?
So...he would have held the ancient human tightly in his muscled grip...the humanoid predator...unable to even struggle against the power of the greater predator...held tight in a vise-like grip...and only when he was sure that the primate Was immobilized did he insert the deadly Sabers 😳.
Was the primate or hominid population kept in areas and where unable to spread because of the large amount of prey and in return large populations of different types predators flourished . Maybe it made us evolve faster because of that struggle . or slowed it , and adaption was stunted by less chances to change by low offspring
12:40 What about the Gomphotheres: Notiomastodon & Cuvieronius?
Dr. Sigma centauris say the same gwan in a different unique forme ina South V
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Before I even watch this I knew exactly what the lion the large cat is more akin to, which is a bear, the true cat is more of a jaguar a small animal The larger the more bear like it is. Prove me wrong
Recent studies suggest that S. Populator couldn’t open their jaws as wide compared to Fatalis.
oh nice
who do you think was the 1st social feline?
RUclips adds are working but not your video
Eh kau siapa bah!
Kok tau ?
Clickbait. Where is the cat pictured?
It's pronounced john-ra, "doctor."
Scary cover image
Silly Hooman!
We isn’t gone! We Siameses are the very last Machairodontines! We getsed smaller and let you Hoomans think we is Feline catsies but we Siameses are Nanosmilodon not Felis! We decideds to fool you Hoomans by pretending to be Feline catsies. So you’d let us move in when all the big animals we eatsed disappeared! We is little now but we still has our huge fangses. We is glad we moved in with you Hoomans cause you is clever and can make fire, build houses and domesticated chickenses! Chickenses is our favourite food!
So remember Hoomans don’t call us Siameses Felis domesticus! We is Nanosmilodon imperator and if you Hoomans argue I shall come and bites you! Then you’ll believe we is Machairodontine catsies!
Love from Sabiney Sabres ❤️
(My Siamese Sabiney is telling you this story)