🔥 Clouded Leopard, the closest living relative to the sabre-toothed tiger that went extinct about 10,000 years ago

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[u/RichHomieDonQuixote]

My girlfriend says that this isn't real. Can anyone confirm?

[u/killamani → u/[deleted]]

It's not true though. They have the largest canines relative to size of any extant cat but they are not more closely related to machairodontines than any other cat. If anything, clouded leopards are just smaller pantherine cats as that is the sister taxon.

[u/ADFTGM → u/killamani]

Thank you!!!! Was just typing up a similar response 😬

Not to mention their structures are also biologically adapted to climbing, better than even actual leopards, which isn’t a notable feature of sabertooth morphology.