Why can't a lion beat a tiger?

The two most powerful cats recognized in the world are lions and tigers. But which one is better than them? Everyone is interested in this issue and has different opinions. Let's talk about it in detail today.

There are many tiger subspecies in the world, such as South China Tiger, Northeast Tiger, Bengal Tiger, Sumatra Tiger and Indian zhina Tiger. Among them, the Siberian tiger is the largest, and the adult male tiger can reach 3.3 meters in length and weigh more than 300 kilograms. I remember reading a piece of information that the largest tiger was captured in the former Soviet Union and Central Asia, with a body length of 4 meters and a weight of 780 kilograms, twice that of ordinary liger! So in terms of size, tigers are the biggest cats.

At present, there are only two main subspecies of lions: African lions and Indian lions. Pumas are often blamed on bobcats. Pumas are the biggest cats. They belong to the same genus and are more closely related to our domestic cats. Among them, Indian lions are small in size and almost extinct in number. We often see African lions. Adult African lions are generally 2.3-2.7 meters long and weigh about 250 kilograms.

Because the size of animals usually determines their strength, the absolute strength of adult Siberian tigers is stronger than that of most African lions. In appearance, they all have terrible fangs and sharp teeth. They are characterized by strong jaws, cracked teeth and great strength when biting, which can be used to kill large animals. On the other hand, lions, especially lions, have exaggerated heads and faces because of their manes, but their bodies are thinner; Tigers are vigorous, but their heads are a little delicate. African lions look fierce, because they have a mane, so their vision is particularly large, but their hunting skills are poor and their endurance and speed are also lacking. The mighty tiger has similar long hair as an adult, with long hair on his face and neck, and his appearance is not inferior to that of a lion. Moreover, from the perspective of individual hunting skills, tigers have both strength and speed, can swim in trees, and have a high success rate in hunting alone. Lions fight in groups, and the efficiency of female lions is much higher than that of male lions. Bodybuilders' muscles are very, very strong, but when China scientists dissected the Northeast Tiger, they found that when its muscles were opened, they were even more beautiful and strong than the muscles of the best bodybuilders. Muscle fibers are unusually thick, and little excess fat is found, and almost no fat is seen. Strong bones accompanied by strong muscles prove that this animal is extremely explosive. The explosive power of the tiger has been shown. There is a crack on the concrete floor of the Lion Tiger Mountain Animal Hall in Beijing Zoo that was scratched by the Northeast Tiger. Peeling liger is strikingly similar, but it is found from anatomy that the heart capacity of a tiger is larger than that of an African lion.

The different geographical environment determines the different fighting methods and strategies of lions and tigers. On the vast plain, it is suitable to exert the strength of the group, lock the target and wait for the opportunity. In the jungle, prey is easy to dodge, hide and escape, which requires high individual combat skills. Lions are strategists and tigers are tacticians.

Because lions and tigers don't live in the same geographical environment, it seems difficult to compete, just like Guan Gong and Qin Qiong in cross talk. In the west, the lion has always been called the king of beasts; In China, the king of animals is the tiger. It is said that in ancient Rome, people used to let lions and tigers perform fighting performances in the arena. As a result, the tiger beats the lion every time. Scientists in the former Soviet Union once tried to make two hungry same-sex adults compete with each other, and the tiger won. Some geographers and zoologists believe that there were lions in ancient Yunnan. But why is it gone now? The tiger drove the lion out of the mountain forest with comfortable and convenient living conditions, and drove it to the deserts and grasslands in northwest India, Arabia and Africa and suffered from displacement. Geographically speaking, tigers are based in Siberia and spread all over Eurasia until the South Asian subcontinent, developing into Bengal tiger subspecies, Caucasian tiger subspecies and South China tiger subspecies, and only the sea prevents them from entering America. Some individuals crossed the South China Sea, entered the Indonesian archipelago, and developed into a subspecies of Sumatra Lahu. From extreme cold to extreme heat, tigers show tenacious adaptability. Tigers act alone, and only in the breeding season do males and females get together for a few days, and females raise their cubs independently. It shows that the tiger's survival ability is stronger than that of the lion. African lions entered the Arabian Peninsula and the South Asian subcontinent from the African continent to the north. There was a game between liger in Indian history. Although there is no written record, the lion finally retreated to the northwest corner of India (known as the Asian lion), and the Bengal tiger spread all over South Asia and Southeast Asia is the final result.

Although both lions and tigers belong to cats, they have different habits. In the natural state, the Siberian tiger is the absolute exclusive beastmaster, while the lion is a "gregarious" animal. In the natural state, it is gregarious, generally more than 20 in each group.

The Siberian tiger has the highest predation skill among all cats, because its habitat is cold and harsh, and there are few wild animals, so it can't bear the failure of predation. At the undisputed top of the food chain, its prey includes all large violent herbivores such as red deer and Asian wild boar. There are Asian brown bears, leopards, black bears, wolves, raccoons, badgers, foxes and other carnivores. There are many rumors that the wild boar defeated the Northeast Tiger, but the wild boar was the defensive side. If you are not killed, it is a victory. There are too few records that can kill the Siberian tiger. Moreover, tigers killed by injuries are generally old, disabled (lacking canine teeth) or young tigers. As for the Bengal tiger, it is reported that the record holder for the most killing is the Bengal tiger, which is related to the environment in India. Among the carnivores in zhina, jackals pose a threat to Bengal tigers and South China tigers. Jackals are not as aggressive as wolves, but the group is more tenacious than wolves, and there is no racial distinction. Different jackals will cooperate to attack tigers and leopards. In India, 20 jackals attacked a female Bengal tiger. In the first confrontation, the tiger killed seven jackals and injured six, destroying the attack power of jackals. However, the remnant jackals immediately summoned another jackal group in the neighboring territory-26 jackals to join the attack on the tiger. In the second resistance, the tiger killed four and wounded two, and began to run away. The jackals chased for 40 kilometers, and the third small jackal group joined the interception. Finally, nearly 40 jackals killed the Bengal tiger. The tiger ate half of it and finally killed seven jackals in the battlefield. There is another legend in China that the jackal is the bane of the tiger. But Asian elephants, Asian rhinoceroses and bison are no match for Bengal tigers. Adult male Asian elephants can protect themselves, but they will never attack tigers. Contrary to African elephants, female Asian elephants can't resist Bengal tigers. The South China Tiger has the most experience against human beings. South China Tiger is a unique tiger in China. It has struggled with China people for 2000 years, and has the richest experience and skills in how to attack and evade, and its situation is also the most dangerous.

African lions, on the other hand, have relatively poor predation ability, so they can only ambush their prey in groups, and only attack African elephants, rhinoceroses, bison and other large animals when there is no escape in dry season. In the process of hunting, the main force is the smaller female lion, and the male lion has almost no frontal attack and one-on-one fight. Individual African lions can't even survive, and the old lions expelled by lions may be killed by hunting dogs or even jackals.

If you really force the lion and the tiger to fight to the death, then the tiger may not be able to beat the lion in the group fight, but it is absolutely impossible for the lion to win the tiger alone, because the tiger is better than the lion in sensitivity, endurance, skill and weight. If the tiger wins, it should be a certain result. Once, a rich man in England thought lions were very powerful, and he fought a liger fight, taking advantage of the ratio of Sumatra tigers to African lions. As a result, the tiger killed three lions. In order to cover up the fact, I killed the tiger with a gun for the fourth time, only to find that there was a tiger upwind. The tiger fell down somehow, but the lion didn't attack. In modern times, some scholars used computers to simulate the liger War, but only input hardware data, not skills. If so, the antelope will kill the leopard 100%. The data shows that the leopard will not escape, and the hunter will never catch the prey, because many prey are worse than others.

The view that tigers are better than lions has been widely recognized in academic and artistic circles. Here, the detailed data of tigers and lions are used to illustrate that all the listed data are average values.

The following is an adult healthy liger. Because the difference between lioness and male lion is too great, male lion is generally adopted as the lion.

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1, body shape comparison

Tigers are the largest cats, and there is no objection at present.

However, in the ancient western world, they were exposed to the largest African lion and the smallest tiger in Central and South Asia, which caused a visual misunderstanding that lions were the largest cats and became symbols of many western countries. It was not until more than a hundred years ago that they came into contact with the bigger and fiercer Hu, and finally changed this concept, forming a transition from lion-centered theory to tiger-centered theory.

In the east, the tiger has been sitting firmly in the main hall, which is a symbol of God, while the lion is just a gatekeeper and a symbol of wild animals.

As a result, due to the differences between East and West in liger's subjective consciousness, Dou liger's Millennium debate was finally triggered.

The struggle between wild animals often has considerable advantages, and it seems unconvincing that the big tiger won the lion. The following situations are quite similar to those of liger.

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2. Physiological data

The following telegram contains almost all the physiological characteristics of this beast:

(1) skull comparison

Lions feel great visually because of their manes. In fact, after removing the mane, it is similar to a tiger. After peeling, it is difficult to distinguish liger, so the skull has little difference.

The mane is a symbol of the lion, which is often infinitely exaggerated and even becomes a decisive weapon. In biology, the role of male mane is defined as: the display of strength between male lions, the criteria for female lions to choose a mate,

The mane has a certain defensive effect on the lion, but it also weakens its attack ability.

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(2) Heart volume

Anatomically, the heart capacity of a tiger is larger than that of an African lion, which is quite important. Among opponents with the same physical quality, it shows that a species has greater explosive power, endurance and physical recovery ability.

(3) mouth

The opening of the cat's mouth is about 60 degrees (saber-toothed tiger can reach 100 degrees), and the bulbous muscles of the tiger's mouth are the most developed in cats. There is little difference in bite force in liger, but the tiger is slightly stronger, about 450kg for a tiger and 400kg for a lion (attached: crocodile's rear end is about1000 kg (2,200 lbs), and its front end is 770kg.

The tooth length of tiger and dog is about 6cm, that of male lion is about 5cm, the biting depth of tiger is about 1 1cm, and that of male lion is about 9cm. The bite depth of 1cm can often determine whether the other person is alive or dead, which also makes the lion's prey mortality rate far less than that of the tiger.

But the roots of the lion's teeth are slightly thicker than those of the tiger. Biologists explain that the reason why lions have thick teeth is that lions can't kill their prey quickly, which leads to their resistance. In order not to break canine teeth in the process of resisting prey, canine teeth have evolved to be thicker.

(4) forelimbs

Tiger Claw is the largest of the cats. The claw width of male tiger is about10.5-11.5 cm, that of female tiger is about 8.5-9.5cm and that of male lion is about 7.5cm.

Clapping hands is a common technique used by tigers, and the palm strength is the highest among cats, reaching 1 ton, which is stronger than that of lions 10%. Clapping your hands is not the characteristic of a lion, whether it is hunting or preying.

All cats have the habit of grinding their claws, but the frequency of lions grinding their claws has decreased in adulthood, which is related to their living environment, so their claws are not as sharp as tigers.

Tiger Claw is the longest of the cats, with a tiger about 10cm, a tiger 9.2cm and a lion 8cm.

Lions are often thrown off by large prey, which shows that their forelimbs are not strong enough and their claws are not deeply embedded, so it is extremely difficult for tigers to be thrown off by bison.

(5) Hindlimb

The lion's hind legs are not strong enough and can only be semi-upright, so the lion is not good at flapping, while the tiger's hind legs are strong and can be completely upright. Standing upright is one and a half heads taller than a lion.

The strength of hind limbs directly affects the jumping ability. Tigers can jump to a height of 2.2-2.4m, females are about 1.8m, tigers can jump to a height of 6.5m, females are 4.5m, and males can hardly jump.

Tigers have thicker limbs, while lions have much thinner limbs.

(6) Muscle

Hu Meng and lions belong to the tropics and subtropics, and their muscles are similar. The strength of the tiger's shoulders is strong, and the strength of the lion is concentrated on the neck.

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The fat of Siberian tiger is mainly under the skin, not attached to the muscle, and the muscle weight can account for about 70% of the whole body weight. According to the anatomical report of China biologists on the Northeast Tiger, the muscle fibers of the West Tiger are extremely thick, and almost no fat can be found, which is stronger than the muscles of the best bodybuilders.

(7) skeleton

Tigers have more perfect bones, and the average bone density is about 1.2% higher than that of lions, which means that tigers are stronger and more resistant to fighting.

(8) Speed

The sprint speed of the Northeast Tiger is about 56 km/h, which is much faster in Meng Hu, about 68 km/h, 64 km/h for the female lion and 56 m/h for the male lion. ..

(9) Flexibility

The tiger is slender, while the lion is short, which means that the tiger can make a wider range and more dexterous turn.

(10) Other

In terms of balance, tigers can walk on the balance beam of gymnastics, but lions can't.

Although the tiger's tail is not as powerful as the legend, it is still its attack weapon, and the lion's tail has no attack effect.

Cat watchers think that tigers are cunning and lions are straightforward.

The above is the comparison of physical hardware, and the following is the comparison of liger's life practice, which is actually the comparison of technical software.

Skills are very important to wild animals. Someone simulated a beast-beast duel before, but it was immediately regarded as a joke, because only the hardware data was entered, but the skill data was forgotten. Because according to this simulation, cheetahs won't catch impala and leopards won't catch zebras, because these prey are stronger than hunters, and zebras can kick leopards over with one foot, but the data shows that leopards won't escape, 100% will be kicked over. ...

In fact, the above physiological data have explained which is better or worse. Skill is more a subjective concept of human observation, while practice is often the application of physiology in life. Let's take this as a reference.

3. Living habits

(1) Some people say that lions live in groups, that is, lions are better than tigers. This kind of people are actually based on the real life of the lion, that is, the lion has a strong overall consciousness, but they ignore another fact, that is, only the strongest lion can decide the outcome in the same kind of struggle.

So, will the lion regard the tiger as the same kind? The answer is possible, because natural mating will occur between tigers and lions, and it will only happen if the other is regarded as the same kind in wild animals.

(2) Some people say that lions make a living by fighting, so he thinks that lions have a stronger desire to fight, but he doesn't know that tigers are extremely territorial. Little tigers will also fight big tigers who invade their territory, and tigers with home court advantage have stronger fighting power (because this is a rice bowl problem). On the contrary, in most cases, the lion only needs to shake his mane to decide the outcome of the battle. In zoos, tigers kill lions mostly because they think lions have invaded their territory, but in the wild, territorial disputes are common, especially when the number of tigers once flourished.

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In other words, lions fight more for their spouses, while tigers fight more for their territory, and the fighting frequency of the two is almost the same.

(3) Females should not only fight for territory, but also fight for their cubs. All male cats have the habit of killing non-intimate kittens. A single female tiger often fights with a larger male tiger to protect her cubs, and a group of female lions surrender directly in this case. The tiger lives alone, and the tigress raises her cubs independently, which shows that the tiger's viability is quite strong, and the lioness cannot raise her cubs independently at all.

(4) Some people say that lions can't measure the strength of their opponents and go forward bravely. Actually this is a serious misunderstanding. Lions measure their opponents by their manes, and lions with poor manes will choose to retreat automatically. In the eyes of the lion, the tiger is a lion with a poor mane. Because the male tiger has no mane, the lion often thinks that the tiger is not as good as himself.

Tigers, like other cats, are very cautious because they live alone, and they will carefully evaluate their opponents' strength, because mistakes in evaluation will lead to serious injuries and they will not be able to hunt, which means that tigers will not fight uncertain wars, which leads to a problem, that is, fighting between lions and tigers is a beast that can win the battle in the eyes of tigers, and this evaluation is definitely more accurate than human evaluation.

4. Combat skills

Cats' bite force is not the biggest among all animals, but claws are the strongest and agility is the highest, so claws are the winning weapon, while teeth are just deadly weapons. With claws and skills, the cat is the only mammal among all animals that can defeat the beast stronger than itself independently (others can only rely on group strength).

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(1) Tiger-fighting uses the palm-slapping method, which is actually a set of combination boxing. It relies more on skill, and rarely puts his head together early.

(2) Lions are the exception of cats, and the fight between them is actually bigger than whose mouth. Due to the lack of strength and skills of limbs, they almost gave up the advantages of cat claws and skills. Lions rely more on their own body and strength, which is a kind of pushing and shoving technology, but we know that lions will not have an advantage over tigers in both size and strength.

Tigers can hold their palms together, but lions can't fully support their weight because of the strength of their hind legs. In order to give full play to the power of the palm, they must support the ground with a forefoot.

(3) The mane has a certain protective effect on the lion's throat, but tigers often lock their throats with forelimb fights before gaining a considerable advantage, because it is irresponsible to lock their throats before gaining an advantage.

5. Hunting skills

Hunting skills can reflect the skills of wild animals from the side.

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(1) The tiger's prey is usually a sneak attack, followed by a short sprint, which requires a stronger explosive force, because if the response is slow, the prey can easily escape, and long-distance pursuit is not the tiger's strong point. Tigers jump on the backs of buffalo and hug them tightly, even if they are larger adult Asian elephants, while lions can only jump on the backs of bison, which are not much smaller than African bison. Lions usually hunt in groups and mainly rely on the support of group strength to pounce on them.

(2) Lions bite their necks on smaller prey and noses on larger ones such as bison, but the way of choking by biting their noses often seems to be slow. Lions often have the possibility of letting their prey escape. In fact, five lions (including lions) killed a bison on TV and finally escaped, reflecting that lions can't kill their prey effectively and quickly, and even cheetahs with almost no fighting ability can escape after being seriously injured, reflecting the killing rate of lions.

The success rate of tiger killing is quite high, and the killing methods are more abundant, such as breaking the cervical vertebra, biting the throat and biting the neck. For smaller ones, the cervical vertebra is almost directly broken, and for bison weighing more than 200kg, the neck is bitten off, which is completely different from the tactics of lions against bison, but the killing efficiency is higher, and the prey is often fatal, because tigers can't afford such mistakes, especially Siberian tigers.

(3) Depending on the prey, the success rate of lions is between 10-20%, and that of tigers is about 5%. Although the success rate of lions is higher than that of tigers, it is very low on average. The food utilization rate is not as good as that of tigers, and they can only take care of one meal, while tigers often take care of them for a long time once they prey.

The lion is the only cat that eats scavengers, which reflects the success rate of a single lion.

(4) Both lions and tigers have the ability to kill oversized prey under unusual circumstances, such as lions against females and giraffes. There are also tigers for female elephants, bison and so on. But a single lion can't kill prey bigger than himself, which is actually rare in cats. It is estimated that only servcats are like this, but servcats can be regarded as the best among cats after all, and like cheetahs, they have to pay a small price for agility.

6. Survival competition

The main competitors of the lion's living environment are hyenas and leopards, not hyenas and leopards, but brown bears and Far Eastern leopards.

(1) The life of a single lion is extremely difficult. Generally, there are only three endings for a single lion to be driven away by a group of lions: starvation, being hunted by hyenas, and being murdered by a group of three-color jackals.

(2) The strength of a single jackal is not as good as that of a hyena, but the scale and toughness of a jackal group are far greater than that of a hyena group, and different jackal groups can even unite against Hu Meng. Nearly 60 jackals killed a female Hu Meng at a heavy price, which was a famous battle example, and it was composed of three different groups of jackals.

(3) The brown bear is a much bigger beast than the West Tiger. The Far East Leopard is extremely difficult to survive under the pressure of the West Tiger, but the leopard of the same species as the Far East Leopard is quite moist under the pressure of the lions. It can be seen that lions are far less able to stifle the development of leopards than tigers, so leopards are called the most successful big cats.

Therefore, the competitive environment between tigers and lions can be said to be equally dangerous, but even so, excluding human factors, tigers live alone very successfully, while lions live alone means death.

7. Examples of combat

Now we can see that liger Dou is kept in captivity, and we can't draw an accurate conclusion from it, but we can draw a reference conclusion.

(1) Compared with wild animals, captive animals are degraded in ability, but there is an important fact that the more skilled they are, the greater the loss.

If Xiong Ke, who is inclined to strength, and cats who are inclined to skill are kept in captivity since childhood, it is obvious that cats will lose more. The same is true of human beings. When a newborn child is locked up from an early age, his unique loss in dealing with others is the greatest. This kind of person can only be regarded as a human being in biology, but in fact it is no different from an idiot. The lion lies in strength, the tiger lies in technology, and its loss is undoubtedly greater than that of the Lions Club.

But even so, the winning rate of captive tigers is much higher than that of lions, not to mention wild liger.

(2) There is another fact, that is, in all the fighting records or videos in liger, it is not surprising that the little tiger defeated the big lion, but there is no case in which the little lion defeated the big tiger.

(3) In the case of a fight between a tiger and a lion, there are usually many male lions, but for a tiger, almost all female lions are chosen together regardless of the male lion. In fact, there is still a big gap between the female tiger and the male tiger, but there is not much difference. But if you really choose this way, you might as well take a lioness and a male leopard to fight.

But even so, the female tiger has an example of defeating the male lion. The male tiger is killing the female lion, and the female tiger can say that there is no chance to defeat the female tiger.

8. Evolution

Liger comes from the same ancestor. At present, it is impossible for wild liger to meet, but the territory of lions and tigers has overlapped in history, and finally they retreated to a corner in the northwest of India (called Asian lions). The final result is that Hu Meng is spread all over South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Before human interference, tigers once spread all over Eurasia, showing tenacious adaptability from extreme cold to extreme heat, while lions can only be confined to tropical and subtropical regions.

Biologically and geographically, the tropical rain forest is the richest land on earth, which is the living area of Hu Meng. In fact, it can also be compared by the competition between Jaguar and Puma. It is an indisputable fact that Jaguar is superior to Puma. Jaguar occupies the center of the tropical rain forest in South America, while puma can only be partial.

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After listing all the data, it is found that the lion lags behind the tiger in almost all directions, and the wild lion without any physiological advantage can be said to have been completely defeated by the wild tiger!