Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

[tigerluver]

@peter, you've piqued my interest, how do you define "terrestrial true hunter?" Also, I'm guessing the extinct cat skulls you have seen belong to P. spelaea?

Also, as a word of caution, skull to body weight is probably the one of the worse mass estimators in itself. Just looking at the data kindly provided by @peter, one can see without even a plot the R^2 squarely for the ratios would be abysmal. One can't logically log or natural log scale the values either, as theoretically, mass should go with mass, but it doesn't in this case. At the same time, the skull density may be of use in applying correction factors long bone estimates to some degree as well. Just not enough research to test this hypothesis. Reply