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By: karis

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By: Edward Wright, Sr.

Edward Wright, Sr. — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:22:37 +0000

Event though Homotherium Serum’s range included Orygun, I have yet to encounter one in Portland or the suburbs.
I can hope… it would sure shut up the neighbor’s dog.

By: Lin

Lin — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:47:32 +0000

I love your drawing and descriptions of the Homotherium serum.I came to your page in search of identifing a tooth that I have on an Native Indian necklace. It is very fine, flat, 3 1/2 to 4 ” and a very soft peach color. Attached only to a silver bale with no other adornment. I have found no other tooth in images like it. But your description fits. It is very pointed and sharp just at the tip, not double serrated, but not as curved as the larger saber toothed cats. An almost ivory polish is evident.Longitudenal
cracks are very fine. It is a very powerful totem if you believe in that. No one seems to recognize it’s source. I have not sent a picture since it is in safety storage with my collection of Native American jewelery. But if interested I would like to show it and consult with anyone who might identify it.
Bless you and your pal, I have also pets, Persians that though adopted have been born with abnormalities, and it is a blessing to care for the sick and infirmed.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:50:50 +0000

Enjoyed looking around your site.
It’s good to find that their are still people out there that can still draw - there arn’t many of us left!

By: desertsabertooth

desertsabertooth — Wed, 10 May 2006 01:59:28 +0000

I just wanted to say I am a big fan of your work and style and I think your Homotherium piece is fantastic. I have seen allot of your work on the walls in the Quaternary Sciences Lab at Northern Arizona University. I would love to see a piece done of the Pliocene cats one day. Keep up the excellent work!

JP H.

By: peacebug

peacebug — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:40:34 +0000

… rather like the picadors whose darts placed in the neck muscles weaken the bull before the matador goes in for the presumed kill.

it’s all so completely elemental.

thanks ogeorge for the details.
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By: OGeorge

OGeorge — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:38:46 +0000

Peacebug (and everyone):

Carnivorous animals have only so many ways to taking down prey. None of it is as neat or efficient as we’d like it to be in our civilized mind’s eye. Homotherium was a much more agile and powerful animal (bodily - not in jaw power) than the living Hyaena. The sloping hindquarters may give the illusion of being relatively weak, but that is certainly not the case here. The muscle attachments on the bones were enormous compared to a hyaena. The scimitar cat most likely used his squat back end as a platform with which to brace itself for the manipulation of large prey animals with the long and powerful forelegs. After inflicting the wound, Homotherium would not have hung on. Its teeth could not stand a lot of torque. (Many of the Smilodons at the LaBrea Tar Pits had broken sabers… Homotherium’s blades were ever thinner) It would have backed off and hit again and again as its victim weakened from loss of blood. As I said in the post, it would not have been easy to watch on Animal Planet, or anywhere else.

Hyaenas tend (at least some clan members do) to latch on to prey with those “Pitbull plus” jaws and teeth they have and hold on while other clan members literally eat their victim to death as it goes into shock (perhaps even a harder thing to watch). I probably didn’t state it very well in the post, but Homotherium had to be more surgical in his attack than most other predators, his thin bladed canines demanded it.

By: peacebug

peacebug — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:37:28 +0000

ogeorge, the cat’s configuration brings to mind the hyena - the strong, long neck, the elongated front legs and spring evident in the hind. and your description of how they likely felled their prey sounds kinda like how the hyena does it too.

am I violating any animal protocol by imagining a link here?
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By: KeithB

KeithB — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:45:11 +0000

This might be presuming a bit much, but any chance of a smilodon soon? I would like to give my son a picture of his new favorite animal.

I really like the cool display at the Page where they show a skeleton of smilodon and then superimpose an image of what the creature looked like “in the flesh,” though it did not look nearly alive as one of your paintings, OGeorge!