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Common name: Scimitar cat
Scientific name: Homotherium crenatidens
Length:
Height:
Weight: up to 400 kgs
Time: Pliocene-Pleistocene
Areas: Northern Hemisphere back then, Alveran Tundra today
One of the largest and most succesful "saber-toothed cats", it can be found even in Arctic regions- its fossils nowadays, anyway. How this rare cat species ended up on Protos is bafflin'.
Its saber teeth are relatively short, but it is still a very efficient predator that combines the huge strength of a big cat with the stamina of a canid or a hyena, due to special adaptations of its anatomy and its respiratory and circulatory systems.
This also allows it to travel huge distances in search of prey without any need to stop for a rest.
Scimitar cats hunt in small prides; they prefer large prey such as young mammoths, rhinoceroses and bison. Even so, they will go after smaller prey if the opportunity arises, which is why any humans on Protos should consider them extremely dangerous.
Scientific name: Homotherium crenatidens
Length:
Height:
Weight: up to 400 kgs
Time: Pliocene-Pleistocene
Areas: Northern Hemisphere back then, Alveran Tundra today
One of the largest and most succesful "saber-toothed cats", it can be found even in Arctic regions- its fossils nowadays, anyway. How this rare cat species ended up on Protos is bafflin'.
Its saber teeth are relatively short, but it is still a very efficient predator that combines the huge strength of a big cat with the stamina of a canid or a hyena, due to special adaptations of its anatomy and its respiratory and circulatory systems.
This also allows it to travel huge distances in search of prey without any need to stop for a rest.
Scimitar cats hunt in small prides; they prefer large prey such as young mammoths, rhinoceroses and bison. Even so, they will go after smaller prey if the opportunity arises, which is why any humans on Protos should consider them extremely dangerous.
A cat species rarer, yet more widespead than Smilodon, I believe
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its good to see that i'm not the only one who thinks it is highly possible that the scimitar cat could have preyed on bovids in addition to rhinos and young elephants 
btw, scimitar cats are believed to have been mainly diurnal, and to have attacked their prey using the same ambush tactics seen in modern cheetahs, with the addition of the scimitar cat using its strong forelimbs to wrestle its prey to the ground, at which point it would then deliver its killing bite to the prey's throat-arteries by using its canines.
btw, scimitar cats are believed to have been mainly diurnal, and to have attacked their prey using the same ambush tactics seen in modern cheetahs, with the addition of the scimitar cat using its strong forelimbs to wrestle its prey to the ground, at which point it would then deliver its killing bite to the prey's throat-arteries by using its canines.