Saber-Toothed Cat

Saber-toothed cats, or (inaccurately) saber-toothed tigers, are a species of big cat part of the machairodont family of felids. They are named for their famous large saber-like teeth, which are actually quite slender and fragile, so they only use these teeth for cutting their prey's windpipes, thus killing them through suffocation (lack of oxygen). They range from the size between a jaguar and a lion to the size between an Asian lion and an African lion, depending on the two species alive today. They are one of the largest of big cats of the Americas today, but the extinct Pleistocene saber-toothed cat known as Smilodon populator was much bigger than todays Smildon species, about the size of a large tiger. They mainly prey on mammoths, elephants, beavers, bison, feral cattle (introduced), feral sheep (introduced), feral goats (introduced), wild/feral boars/pigs (introduced), deer, antelopes (introduced), pronghorn, peccaries, giraffes (introduced), sasquatch sloths, bigfoot, camelids, tapirs, native wild horses, feral/nonnative horses (introduced), rhinoceroses, large birds, sloth lizards, American giraffe beast hatchlings and horse-sized juveniles, and some other large megafauna. They are very muscular in build, allowing them to hunt prey that are three to four times the weight of their own. They are listed as Least Concern as they are not threatened by habitat loss due to conservation and are not aggressive nor predatory towards any sapient species/beings nor dylanuses. They are also adapting well into life in the cities due to abundance of bison, feral cattle, camelids, tapirs, and other megafauna that has adapted to city life.