Largest cat in history?

[LonePredator]

(01-21-2022, 04:48 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote:

(01-19-2022, 04:25 PM)LonePredator Wrote: I don't think it was any of these animals. Pretty sure it was the unnamed Tiger from Borneo which lived during the Pleistocene. It's estimated size according to the peer reviewed paper (Sherani, 2019) was 480±60 kg so it was at least 420kg but it could have been much heavier as well.

So it rivals and even most likely surpasses the Smilodon Populator but among all animals in this list, it's the Smilodon Populator (most likely) or the Ngandong Tiger

The giant Bornean tiger belonged to the southern clade of the mainland Pleistocene tiger.

Their northern counterparts were also super massive, but we just don't know the exact size of these fossils.

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So we only know about the Southern population? So in theory if the prey density was high and there were large sized prey in the north as well then the Northern Population could have been a little bigger in size, right??


I like to think that these collosal beasts would have preyed on large pachyderms or just very large sized prey in general because that is what would have caused them to grow to such an enormous size.


But wouldn't this enormous size slow them down? As in wouldn't they have been a lot less agile? It's hard to imagine a Tiger without it's agility and explosiveness and especially their unique ability to stand on their two hindlimbs like bears which Tigers are still able to do despite their huge size


What do you think?? Reply