Who has a higher chance of winning a fight between a tiger and a lion?

At present, the concept that tigers are better than lions has been generally recognized in academic circles.

The following is an illustration by detailed data of tigers and lions.

All the data listed are average.

Adult healthy liger is used for the following.

Because of the great difference between the female lion and the male lion, the male lion is generally used for the lion.

1. Body shape comparison

There is no objection that tigers are the largest cats.

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

In the East, the tiger has always been firmly in nave, and it is a symbol of God, while the lion is just a gatekeeper and a symbol of the beast, which eventually led to a thousand-year debate about liger's struggle because of the difference in subjective consciousness between the East and the West towards liger. The struggle between wild animals often has a considerable advantage, and it seems unconvincing that a big tiger wins a lion. All the situations mentioned below are quite similar in liger.

2. Physiological data

Almost all the physiological characteristics of wild animals are included below:

(1) Comparison of skulls

The lion feels quite big visually because of its mane. In fact, it is almost the same as a tiger after removing its mane, and it is difficult to distinguish liger after peeling, so the skull is not much different.

The mane is a symbol of the lion, which is often exaggerated infinitely and even becomes a decisive weapon. Biologically, the function of male lion mane is defined as: the display of strength between male lions and the criteria for female lions to choose a mate. < P > The mane has a certain defensive effect on the male lion, but at the same time it will weaken its attack ability.

(2) Heart capacity

In anatomy, the heart capacity of tigers is larger than that of African lions, which is quite important. Among opponents with the same physiological quality, it reflects that a species has greater explosive power, endurance and physical recovery ability.

(3) Mouth

The opening degree of cats' mouths is about 6 degrees (saber-toothed tigers can reach 1 degrees), and the bulbous muscles of tigers' jaws are the most developed in cats. There is little difference in the biting force in liger, where tigers are slightly stronger, with a tiger's 45kg and a lion's 4kg

(Attached: the rear end of crocodiles is about 1kg (22lb).

The canine teeth of the tiger are about 6cm long, the male lion is about 5cm long, the bite depth of the tiger is about 11cm, and the 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 mortality rate of prey much smaller than that of the tiger.

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

(4) Forelegs

The front paw of a tiger is the largest in the cat family. The width of the paw pad of a male tiger is about 1.5-11.5cm, that of a female tiger is about 8.5-9.5cm, and that of a male lion is about 7.5cm..

Clapping is a common technique used by tigers. Its palm strength is the highest in the cat family, reaching 1 ton, which is 1% stronger than that of the lion. Clapping is not its characteristic whether the lion fights or preys.

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

Tiger's claws are the longest in cats, about 1cm in the west tiger, 9.2cm in the Meng tiger and 8cm in the lion.

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

(5) hind legs

The lion's hind legs are weak and can only be semi-upright, so the lion is not good at slapping, while the tiger's hind legs are strong and can be completely upright. After being upright, it is one and a half heads taller than the 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 1.6m, tigers can reach a height of 6.5m, females are 4.5m, and males can hardly jump.

The tiger's limbs are stronger, while the lion's limbs are much thinner.

(6) Muscles

Both the tiger and the lion are tropical and subtropical, and their muscles are similar. The tiger's shoulders are powerful, and the lion's strength is concentrated in the neck.

The fat of Siberian tiger is mainly under the skin, not attached to the muscle, and its muscle weight can account for about 7% of the whole body weight. According to the report of China biologists on the anatomy of 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) Bones

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

(8) Speed

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

(9) Flexibility

The tiger is slender and the male lion is short, which means that the tiger can do a wider range.

(1) In other

balance forces, tigers can walk on the balance beam in gymnastics competitions, 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 function.

Cat watchers believe that tigers are cunning and lions are relatively straightforward.

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

Skill is very important for beasts. Before, some people simulated a beast-to-beast duel, but it was immediately taken as a joke, because they only entered the hardware data, but forgot to enter the skill data. Because according to this simulation, cheetahs will not catch impala, and leopards will not catch zebras, because these prey are stronger than hunters, and zebras can kick leopards over with one foot, but the data shows that leopards will not escape, and 1% will be kicked to death. Skill is more a subjective concept of human observation, but practice is often the application of physiology in life, so let's take it as a reference.

3. Living habits

(1) Some people say that lions are gregarious, that is, lions are stronger than tigers. In fact, this kind of people are based on the actual life of lions, that is, the overall consciousness of lions is strong, but they ignore another fact, that is, only the strongest lion can decide the outcome in the same kind of fighting.

So, will the lions regard tigers as the same kind? The answer is possible, because natural mating will happen between tigers and lions, which only happens when the lions regard each other as the same kind in wild animals.

(2) It is also said that the male lion lives by fighting, so he thinks that the male lion has a stronger desire to fight, but he doesn't know that the tiger is extremely territorial, and the small tiger will also fight against the big tiger who breaks into its territory, and the tiger who has the advantage of home court has a stronger fighting capacity (because this is a rice bowl problem). On the contrary, in most cases, the lion only needs to wag 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.

That is to say, the lion fights more for his spouse, while the tiger fights more for his territory, and their fighting frequency is almost the same.

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

(4) Some people say that the male lion will not measure his opponent's strength and go forward bravely. In fact, this is a serious misunderstanding. The standard for the male lion to measure his opponent is mane, and the male lion with poor mane will choose to retreat automatically. In the eyes of the male lion, the tiger is a lion with poor mane, because the male tiger has no long mane, so the male lion often thinks that the tiger is not as good as he can fight.

Tigers, like other cats, are cautious because they live alone, and they will also 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, lions fighting with tigers are beasts that can win the battle in the eyes of tigers, and this evaluation is definitely more accurate than human evaluation.

4. Fighting skills

The bite force of cats is not the biggest among wild animals, but their claws are the strongest and the agility is the highest, so claws are the winning weapon, while teeth are only the weapon to death. With claws and skills, the cat is the only mammal among the beasts that can defeat a beast stronger than itself independently (others can only rely on group strength).

(1) The tiger fights by slapping, which is actually a set of combination boxing, relying more on its skills and rarely putting its 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, the advantages of claws and skills of cats are almost abandoned. The lion relies more on his body and strength, which is a kind of pushing and shoving technique, but we know that the lion will not have an advantage over the tiger in both size and strength.

A tiger can use his hands together, but a lion can't fully support his whole body weight because of the strength of his hind legs. In order to fully exert his palm strength, he must support the ground with one front palm.

(3) The mane has a certain protective effect on the throat of the lion, but tigers often lock their throats by fighting with their forelimbs first, and only after gaining considerable advantages, because it is irresponsible for their throats to lock their throats rashly before gaining advantages.

5. Hunting skills

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

(1) Tiger's predation is usually a sneak attack, followed by a short-distance sprint, which requires a stronger explosive force, because if the response is slow, it is easy for the prey to escape, and long-distance pursuit is not the tiger's strength. The tiger jumps on the back of the buffalo and holds it tightly, even the larger adult Asian female elephant, while the lion can only jump on the back of the bison and be easily thrown down, and the Asian bison is not much smaller than the African bison. Lions usually hunt in groups, mainly relying on the support of group strength to jump on them.

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

The tiger's killing success rate is quite high, and the killing methods are more abundant, such as snapping off the cervical vertebra, biting the throat and biting the neck, etc. For smaller ones, it is almost directly snapping off the cervical vertebra, and biting the neck for bison larger than 2kg, which is completely different from the lion's tactics against bison, but the lethal efficiency is higher, and it is often fatal with one blow. The prey it gets rarely escapes, because the tiger can't afford such a mistake, especially the Northeast Tiger.

(3) The success rate of lions is 1-2% according to different prey, 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 it for a long time once they prey.

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

(4) Both lions and tigers have the ability to kill super-large prey under extraordinary circumstances, such as the females and giraffes of lions and the females and bison of tigers, but a single lion is unable to kill prey larger than itself, which is actually rare in cats. It is estimated that only the serval cat is like this, but the serval cat is the best in cats after all, and it is as agile as a cheetah.

6. Survival competition

The main competitors of the living environment of lions are hyenas and leopards, while Meng Hu is hyenas and leopards, and Xi Hu is brown bear and Far East leopard.

(1) The life of a single lion is extremely difficult. Generally, a single lion who is driven away by the lions has only three endings, namely, starvation, being hunted by hyenas, and being murdered by 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 much greater than that of a hyena group. Different groups of jackals can even join forces to deal with Meng Hu. There have been three famous battles in which nearly 6 jackals managed a female Meng Hu at a heavy price.

(3) The brown bear is a much bigger beast than the West Tiger. The Far East Leopard is extremely difficult to survive under the suppression of the West Tiger, but the leopard of the same species as the Far East Leopard is quite moist under the suppression of the lions. It can be seen that the ability of the lions to stifle the development of the leopard is far less than that of the tiger, and the leopard is therefore called the most successful big cat.

Therefore, the competitive environment between the tiger and the lion can be said to be equally dangerous, but even so, excluding human factors, the tiger is still very successful in living alone, while the lion's living alone means death.

7. Cases of fighting and killing

All the liger fights we see now are kept in captivity, so we can't draw a conclusion from it accurately,

but we can draw a reference conclusion.

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

If Xiong Ke, who tends to strength, and the feline, who tends to skill, are kept in captivity from childhood, it is obvious that the loss of the feline is greater. The same is true of human beings. When a newborn child is locked up from an early age, the loss of his unique human skills is the greatest, and this kind of person can only be regarded as a human being biologically, but in fact it is no different from an idiot. The lion lies in strength, while the tiger lies in skill, and its loss is undoubtedly greater than that of the lion 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 current records or videos of liger Fight, it is not surprising that a small tiger defeated a big lion, but it was a war case in which a small lion defeated a big tiger.

(3) In the case of fighting between tigers and lions, the male lion is generally chosen, while for tigers, almost all the females are chosen together, regardless of the male. In fact, there is still a big gap between the female tiger and the male tiger, just not as big as the lion. 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 also has the battle example of defeating the male lion, and the male tiger is killing the female lion, and the female tiger can say nothing to the female tiger.