London, Oct 30 : A research by scientists from the US and UK has suggested that far from being solitary hunters, sabretooth tigers were social animals who hunted in packs, sharing the spoils among themselves.
According to a report by BBC News, the abundance of S. fatalis (scientific name for sabretooth tigers) fossils in Californian tar seeps suggests they were packs of scavengers, lured in by the distress calls of trapped prey.
The research, carried out in Africa, found that audio playbacks of prey sounds attract social carnivores, but not solitary hunters.
This suggests S. fatalis was social too, according to the Royal Society journal study.