Are teeth important to big cats?
Big cats remember on their tooth to kill prey. They have sturdy jaws, with three pairs of incisor teeth, one pair of canines, two or three pairs of premolars, and one pair of molars. Apart from jaguars, all the other massive cats drive their massive powerful canines into the neck of their prey, between the gaps in the backbone. The enamel reduce through the spinal cord, often killing the prey instantly. The small however sharp incisor teeth located between the canines assist the cat scrape meat off the bones. The molars help to crack the bones open when the cat is feeding. Jaguars generally attack their prey on top of the skull, piercing it in between the ears. They can do this because they have wider jaws than those of different big cats.
