Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

[tigerluver]

(11-25-2016, 05:18 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: So jaguar canines come out as proportionally the densest canine of all. Maybe that's why they are more prone for the skull biting against the preys.

BTW, what is your opinion about the canine alveoli in the post #324?

I just crudely measured the skull. I (with no concrete basis) tried to acknowledge the shortening of that big skull due to angle and still found the alveoli to be proportionately very large. I mean from the raw photo the alveoli are less than a sixth smaller than the length of the skull (in tigers the the relationship is more 1/9-1/11 I believe).

Just compare vK's skull to it to see the extra large alveoli:

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There has to be heavy angle-caused distortion that is making the rostrum, alveoli, and skull as a whole look so wide. Can't say how much distortion there is, but as the photo stands a 50 mm canine would produce a 300 mm (not correct due to angle distortion). Maybe a 400-450 mm skull more realistically if the skull had 50 mm wide canine alveoli? Reply