Nimravides the similarities between them at first glance, based on autapomorphies in the skeleton, the two animals are too different to be classified as species of the same genus, and thus, "Nimravides" remains separate as its own genus within the Homotherini. Nimravides Nimravides is a genus of extinct saber-toothed cats that lived in North America during the middle and late Miocene, between 13.6 and 4.9 Ma. Despite its scientific name, "Nimravides" does not belong to the Nimravidae, but is a true cat, belonging to the family Felidae. "Nimravides catacopsis", one of the largest and latest species, was quite large, measuring at
The Lives of Animals contribution would more properly be called a scholarly article and Smuts' article, while grounded in her scientific studies, is mostly autobiographical and anecdotal. The Lives of Animals The Lives of Animals (1999) is a metafictional novella about animal rights by the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. The work is introduced by Amy Gutmann and followed by a collection of responses by Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Wendy Doniger and Barbara Smuts. It was published by Princeton University Press as part of its Human Values series. "The Lives of Animals" consists of two