Lifestyle
Since the fossil record is so scarce for this species, it is hard to tell exactly what this animal would have acted like or how it might have hunted. With species like Smilodon fatalis, it is relatively easy to at least make hypothesis about social life, to infer that the presence of terrible injuries that healed indicated hunting large animals and a strong social structure that cared for the wounded. Species like the large and lean Acinonyx pardinensis can be compared with great accuracy to the modern cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus and their hunting styles and social behavior were probably very much alike. With this old species that had no particularly good fossils or modern descendants, the inferences on its life are at best guesses based on the guesses of more well known extinct relatives such as the Homotheriini tribe.
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