During a recent presentation wherein I attended a campus and spoke, I discovered their geology and paleontology department had a few felid skulls in their catalog and requested to gain access to them. Not at all to my surprise, they permitted me and I gave an impromptu dialogue and class on it after having spoken earlier, only to discover when handling their collection that some of their specimens showed signs of stressors in life. In particular, their [i]Smilodon fatalis californicus[/i] skull demonstrated that early in life, likely as a cub, it had suffered trauma to the right mandible and also had suffered a nasal fracture that caused a deviated septum that it carried throughout life. I was again offered a position as a result should I ever wish to negotiate one but I declined for the time being although it is something to consider once my current obligations are done.