COLLECTA 2015: PREHISTORIC LIFE - SMILODON AND DAEODON.

Kikimalou wrote:

I'm very happy to watch these two models, I guess I will find a place for them at home  

Roger wrote:

Daeodon looks exagerated more in accordance with pop culture, though, I love pose and legs. Smilodon looks a Percheron! Nice figure however.

We are often on the same mood Rogério but in this case I don't think this daedon is exaggerated. It is of course different from the Mojo one but I think both are true to the skeleton.    And I like the pose  

With the exception of the head, I like very much this daeodon, actually it fits a lot with "my style", head features look exagerated in my view but I am sure after your walk around I'll be able of checking it better once a single catalogue picture is not clear enough.

Kikimalou wrote:

Scott... I agree with you

... And I agree with you, Christophe!

Roger wrote:

With the exception of the head, I like very much this daeodon, actually it fits a lot with "my style", head features look exagerated in my view but I am sure after your walk around I'll be able of checking it better once a single catalogue picture is not clear enough.

Maybe I'm wrong but I still don't think the head is too big, the main difference with the Mojo is the thickness of the neck, not the head so much.

It is often the same with wild boar, some seems to have shorterneck or bigger head, it is often an illusion due to the neck's thickness.

I will make a walkaround as soon as I can catch one

Sergey wrote:

Kikimalou wrote:

Scott... I agree with you

... And I agree with you, Christophe!

I agree with you too Sergey.

 The Collecta’s saber teeth do not look right compared to the beautifully curved knife like ones on the Mojo cat
figurine.  

I agree for the teeth, I hope they will be more curved

Even if some are far less curved than they supposed to be the one on the left

Thats a good pont Christophe.  The CollectA Smilodon sabers are even less curved than the picture on the left.  The real Smilodon's sabers are shaped more like a backward curved knife and they are narrow from side to side but thicker from front to back

Well, I'm happy for these, .....except... they got the feet wrong on Daeodon! Arrgh! Entelodonts have digits 3 and 4 touching the ground only, digits 2 and 5 are vestigial. They won't show. These feet look like pigs feet! They shouldn't. Mojo got the feet wrong last year on the Hyaenodon. I think I have a foot fetish when it comes to prehistoric animals!

paleoferroequine wrote:

Well, I'm happy for these, .....except... they got the feet wrong on Daeodon! Arrgh! Entelodonts have digits 3 and 4 touching the ground only, digits 2 and 5 are vestigial. They won't show. These feet look like pigs feet! They shouldn't. Mojo got the feet wrong last year on the Hyaenodon. I think I have a foot festish when it comes to prehistoric animals!

Actually, as a feet and number of toes or if they're vestigial or not are very important to determine taxonomically a species, their connection and their place along the evolution. In prehistoric reconstructions, it can determine which current species are used as a reference to the prehistoric animal. Thus, I don't think it is a minor thing. :)

paleoferroequine wrote:

Well, I'm happy for these, .....except... they got the feet wrong on Daeodon! Arrgh! Entelodonts have digits 3 and 4 touching the ground only, digits 2 and 5 are vestigial. They won't show. These feet look like pigs feet! They shouldn't. Mojo got the feet wrong last year on the Hyaenodon. I think I have a foot festish when it comes to prehistoric animals!

You are right. Now I can't see other things than the feet