"Could Saber-Toothed Cats and American Lions Roar?" Topic
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Tango01  | 29 Jun 2024 5:36 p.m. PST |
"odern cats belong to one of two groups: either the pantherine ‘big cats,' including the roaring lions, tigers and jaguars; or Felinae ‘little cats,' which include purring cats like lynxes, cougars, ocelots and domestic cats. "Evolutionarily speaking, sabertooths split off the cat family tree before these other modern groups did," North Carolina State University's Professor Adam Hartstone-Rose…"
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| Porthos | 30 Jun 2024 2:55 a.m. PST |
I don't know about American lions (didn't even know they exist !) but my sabre-tooth tigers definbitely roar ! |
| Tango01 | 30 Jun 2024 3:45 p.m. PST |
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| rvandusen | 02 Jul 2024 3:20 a.m. PST |
I have no clue as to roaring, but I have read that there is evidence that smilodon may have lived in prides. This suggests that they would have had vocalizations like roaring, grunting, thrumming. They only way to be sure is time travel or create a mutant that is as close as possible to the original. |
| rvandusen | 02 Jul 2024 3:47 a.m. PST |
For further reading I recommend," Big Cats and their Fossil Relatives." link |
| Tango01 | 02 Jul 2024 12:27 p.m. PST |
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