Re: Sabretooths (Re: Prescription Assistance

"Mario Petrinovich" <mario.petrinovic1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Marc Verhaegen:
Mario, what were your arguments to think that sabretooths were semi-aq.?

Actually, everything that is known about them.
They have long, brittle canines. Those canines cannot withstand
forces put upon them on land. In water it is completly different
situation,
forces are managable.
Then their stocky built (not very good for catlike life) implied to
me that they might be aquatic.
Then the fact that they could survive injuries that normal cat
wouldn't survive without living in pack. In aquatic situation they could
survive it living solitary.
Additional stuff helped. The thing that they were found in La Bra
pit in such a big numbers; the fact that world in the past was much more
wet; the fact that I figured a scenario which can explain both, why those
canines are so long (only upper ones), and why they are laterary
compressed
(eye piercing). I mean, lions of today would also like to cut the
arteries,
only this would make their teeth brittle. Maybe this isn't the right word.
They were elastic (not brittle), but they were breakable, because they
were
lateraly thin, and long.
Actually, everything points me to that scenario, and nothing points
against it. Take a look at clouded leopard, which lives in pretty wet
situation, and hunts proboscis monkeys. Proboscis monkeys run away from
predators by jumping into water. I would say that scenes like that were
pretty normal in the past. -- Mario Petrinovich

"The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives"
by Mauricio Anton, Alan Turner, and F. Clark. Howell

ISBN-10: 0231102283
ISBN-13: 978-0231102285

There you go, Mario. Amazon has used copies for
around $8.00. This book won't be supporting your
navel-gazing about aquatic sabertooths (so Marco is
sure not to read it) but it is a highly readable account of
the topic at hand. I have a copy around here somewhere
and *have* read it so I'm looking forward to your sheepish
retraction of most of what you've said above.....Marco, of
course isn't expected to do anything.

"I don't get this." -- Mario Petrinovich, 5/27/2007


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