Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

[GrizzlyClaws]

(11-15-2016, 03:13 AM)Spalea Wrote: @GrizzlyClaws:

About #294: I made an error... I have taken 2,7 cm for an inch (and not 2,54 cm). Indeed, almost 6 inches large means almost 15,24 cm (and not 16,2 cm).

Nevertheless, you make me believe that this cave lion was exceptionnal. Thus, ordinary, the cave lion had fangs between 12 and 13 cm long. Is it correct ?

Could we conclude that the cave lion's fangs being as straight as the tiger's ones, the cave lion was a solitary big feline like the extant tiger ? According to the examination of the fangs ?

Check the Cave lion skull and canine replicas from Bone Clone. This holotype came from Alaska, the length of the skull is around 38.5 cm and the length of the canine is around 12.7 cm. So you are right, the ordinary male Cave lions got the canines between 12 to 13 cm, and it was proportionally longer than the African lion canine corresponding to the skull ratio.

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And you can also check the post #2 in this thread, there is a 15.5 cm Cave lion canine which I previously mistaken as an Amur tiger canine. Compared to the real Amur tiger canine, its root is only slightly narrower, not extremely narrow like that of the African lion canine. The real Amur tiger canine is also smoother than the Cave lion canine, but the Cave lion canine is smoother than the African lion canine. They were the group of lions that convergently evolved toward tiger. Maybe it is due the life style of the Cave lion. The male Cave lions were also solitary hunters, while the female Cave lions used to live in pride.

The largest ever Cave lion canine is probably around 15-16 cm, and the largest African lion canine I heard about was 13.7 cm, and this particular African lion canine was already belonged to an extremely freak specimen, yet it is still shy of the largest Cave lion canine. Reply