Toothed tiger (Smilodon), also called Smilodon's gone kind of large saber-toothed cats.
Distribution
Toothed tigers lived between 2.5 million years to 10,000 years BC in the Americas. They are called "saber-toothed" for most of their length jaw canines. Although colloquially called "saber-toothed tiger," Smilodon is not closely related to the tiger, which belongs to a different subfamily. Smilodonat is a member of a missing podsemeystvoMahayrodonti (saber).
Physical harakteristikaV depending on Smilodon weighed 55 to 300 kg. and have a length of 1 to 2,5 m. They had a relatively short tail, powerful legs, strong muscles of the neck and long canines. Significantly more energetic than a bear. Hind limbs were strongly built adductor muscles which helped Tiger Stability in combat loot.
Subspecies
There are several species of Smilodon, which are described, but only three species are distinguished:
Graceful Smilodon (Smilodon gracilis), lived 2.5 million - 500,000 years in the eastern part of North America; smallest and earliest species weighing only about 55 to 100 kg., Likely successor Megantereona . Other types of saber-toothed tigers were probably derived from this species.
Fatal Smilodon (Smilodon fatalis), lived 1.6 million - 10,000 years, replaced Smilodon graceful in North America and western South America. Size was between Smilodon graceful and popular (famous) Smilodon. The weight of this species is from 160 to 220 kg., And its length is about 1,2 - 1,5 m.
The famous Smilodon (Smilodon populator), lived 1 million - 10,000 years, has appeared in the eastern parts of South America and is the largest of all Mahayrodonti. With a weight of about 200 to 300 kg. and length about 2 - 2,5 m. and very large specimens probably weighing 400 to 500 kg. and length 3 m., he was one of the worst cat ever existed. Its upper canines were long 28 cm. and protruded up to 17 cm. the upper jaw.
Lifestyle and Nutrition
Toothed tiger was more efficient killer of large animals than modern lions and tigers, but also it is a rule and more dependent on finding such large animals. This highly-specialized hunting style may have contributed to his disappearance because he was a little more cumbersome than those large canines were not as effective in capturing smaller and faster animals if the ecosystem changes in some way. Toothed tiger disappeared around 10,000 BC, and disappear while many other large herbivorous and carnivorous mammals
