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(08-17-2016, 02:50 AM)brotherbear Wrote: In Pleistocene North America, the giant jaguar, the scimitar cat, the saber-toothed cat, and the American lion all coexisted somehow. Did they share the same environment? It is my understanding that Smilodon preferred bison, horses, and camels whereas Homotherium was a killer of juvenile mammoths ( probably a night hunter ). Any clues as to the prey choices of the giant jaguar or atrox?
A very good book as concerns the ... Big cats and their fossiles relatives ! Edition: Columbia.
Prey of the panthera atrox: large bovids (pleistocene bisons, a large "naturally freeze dried mummy" of a bison found in Alaska clear marks and claws and teeth... Teeth marks punctured and not ripped (it would be the case of homotherium, the other big felid present in the area, the kill would be occured in autumn because the glacial temperature caused the body to freeze before going to be consumed, thus this kill was not made by a large pride. A carnassial teeth was found in the skin and it was an atrox lion's teeth).
For the giant jaguar: short legged horses of the genius hippidion (upper pleistocene of Chile). Horses became totally extinct in the Americas at the end of the pleistocene before to be reintroduced by the european colonists...