Zoological inaccuracies & mistakes

In 10 Animals That Lived in North America Before Humans, the sabre-toothed cat is represented by a pet cat, the American lion by an extant lion, the short-faced bear by a brown bear, the woolly rhinoceros by an extant rhinoceros, the dire wolf by an extant wolf, the Columbian mammoth by a deer, the American cheetah by an extant cheetah, terratorns by a kigisher, North American camels by dromedaries, the giant beaver by an extant beaver and Glyptodon by a tree shrew. The stag-moose, represented by an extant moose, was said to resemble a cross between a moose and an elk.
 
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