Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

[GrizzlyClaws]

(04-17-2024, 05:22 AM)Spalea Wrote: @GrizzlyClaws 

You told: " The second pic is a four set canines of an adult male African lion, albeit a large male. And its weight formula for each individual canine should be 0.3 + 0.3 + 0.2 + 0.2. So the upper canine of a large male modern lion should weigh about 80g, a little more than half of a large male cave lion. "

Yes, I have retained the extant felids' fangs weights, but I would have never expected that the difference between an actual lion and an extinct one was so great... I would have imagined that the difference would have been proportionnal with the body weight, thus that the fang weight would have been 25% greater (100-110 grams), but 140 grams...

Perhaps this big difference is a consequence of a harder life, the predation would be harder during the Pleistocene era than in the extant day. Perhaps too, the cave lion was used to hunting some more powerful preys, more able to fight and resist. Hence the necessity to have some noticeably heavier fangs.

Do the claws follow the same tendancy ?

Those 15 cm upper fangs were most likely belonged to those alpha territorial overlords.

You can also see a lot of beta male cave lions with 11-12 cm upper fangs.

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For the modern lion, a supersized overlord should have 13 cm upper fangs that weigh 100-110g each. Reply