Рассказ о саблезубом тигре по-английски

Saber tooth tiger long gone on the planet, they lived during the last ice ages. It was in the Pleistocene period, which began a million years ago. Saber-toothed tigers, as they are called mejirodai, appeared at the beginning of the Pleistocene. They belonged to semesta cat in many ways - large size, retractable claws, strong legs, flexibility of the body. These predators appeared three times in the evolution of the family, interestingly, different types of them do not have kinship among themselves. But saber-toothed tigers are a special subfamily, as have a number of special features. This is a very long and large upper canines, which constantly protrudes from the mouth of the tiger. To segrist prey, tiger had a very wide open mouth. Therefore, the jaw of the animal was different in their structure. A saber tooth tiger had a body length of about 1.2 m and a short tail, like cats, Pallas ' cats. Shoulders and neck he had a muscular. Saber-toothed tigers were bad runners and attacked the victim from ambush, inflicting a blow to her upper fangs and claws of the front paws. The main prey of machairodus were, apparently, a variety of antelope and hipparion (hipparion three - toed horse is a typical inhabitant of Pliocene steppe and Savannah). It's possible that they could attack mastodons (large animals, up to 3 meters, the squad Hootie, the ancestors of modern elephants that went extinct). Saber tooth tigers lived in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Existed until the end of the Quaternary (in North America this group became extinct about 10 thousand years ago).