Who is better, the tiger or the lion?

The lion roars loudly, but it is not a big deterrent. There is a sound in the tiger's roar that humans can't hear, which can make the prey unable to move. The tiger is even more powerful.

The tiger chooses Siberian tiger as the representative, and sometimes mentions Bengal tiger and South China tiger. Lions are represented by African lions.

1. Compare body shape and weight first.

Siberian tigers are the largest among tigers and slightly larger than African lions. According to the data, the largest cat in existence is the male Siberian tiger hunted by the former Soviet Union in Central Asia, with a body length of 5 meters (excluding tail) and a weight of 76 kilograms, which is twice that of ordinary Siberian tigers or African lions.

Bengal tiger is the second, and it is not much different from African lion. The south China tiger is slightly smaller, but its temperament is the most violent.

2. Compare the predation skills and their position in the food chain.

Siberian tiger has the highest predation skills 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. Siberian tigers are at the undisputed peak in the local food chain, and their prey includes all herbivores and carnivores, large and violent herbivores such as red deer and Asian wild boar; Carnivores such as Asian brown bear, leopard, Asian black bear, wolf, lynx, badger and fox. Because leopards and tigers have the same food, leopards are never allowed in the tiger's territory, so the chance of preying on leopards is very small, but some data show that leopard hair has been found in the feces of Siberian tigers. Although the Asian brown bear is huge, it is no match for the Northeast Tiger. There are many records of male brown bears being attacked by tigers. Black bears are even worse. Black bears that hibernate in winter are often dug out of their holes by tigers and even have no chance to resist. In North Asia, the number of wolves is small, generally no more than seven, so they can only avoid tigers. Of course, there are many rumors that the male wild boar defeated the Siberian tiger, but the wild boar is the defensive side, and it is victory if it is not killed. There are too few records that can kill the Siberian tiger. Moreover, the tigers killed by injury are generally old, disabled (lacking canine teeth) or young tigers, and they can't prey on other wild animals, so they have to attack the male wild boar with strong fighting capacity. Because Siberian tigers are far away from human living areas, Siberian tigers generally take the initiative to avoid human beings and do not provoke strange things.

Bengal tigers and South China tigers are relatively rich in wild animals and overlap with human beings, so their success rate of predation is not as good as that of Siberian tigers, but they are the most dangerous to human beings. The South China Tiger has the most experience in fighting against human beings. South China Tiger is unique to China. It struggled with Chinese people for 2 years, and it has the most abundant skills on how to attack and evade, and the situation is also the most dangerous. From 195s to 196s, China killed the South China Tiger on a large scale, and now it is more endangered and precious than the giant panda. The record holder of the most killings is the Bengal tiger in India, which is related to the quality of Indians and the local environment. Among the local carnivores, jackals pose a threat to Bengal tigers and South China tigers. Jackals are not as good as wolves in size and attack power, but they are more numerous and tenacious than wolves, and there is no racial distinction. Different jackals will cooperate to attack tigers and leopards. In India, a group of 2 jackals attacked an adult female Bengal tiger. In the first confrontation, the tiger killed 7 jackals and injured 6, destroying the offensive power of the jackals. However, the remnant jackal group immediately summoned 26 jackal groups from another neighboring territory to join the attack on the tiger. After killing 4 and injuring 2 in the second resistance, the tiger began to escape. The jackals chased for 4 kilometers, and the third small jackal group joined in the interception. Finally, nearly 4 jackals killed the Bengal tiger. Half of the tigers were eaten, and seven jackals were killed in the last battlefield. There is also a legend in China that jackals are the bane of tigers.

African lions have poor predation ability, so they can only rely on group ambushes. They only attack African elephants, rhinoceroses and bison when there is no way out in the dry season. Generally, more than 1 African lions flock together to divide the elephants, with the lioness harassing behind the elephants and bison and the male attacking head-on. There are almost no lions fighting one another. African lions alone can't survive, and the old lions expelled by the lions are usually killed by hyenas or tricolored jackals. Hyenas are revenge, three-color jackals are murder, and their tactics are very similar to those of Asian jackals. The African lion that hurt the most was the man-eating lion group when Uganda built the railway in the 19th century. This lion group killed more than 1 workers and was finally destroyed, leaving only two nursing cubs to be sent to the zoo.

3. Compare hardware such as teeth and claws.

The size of canine teeth and jaw hardness are almost the same, and the sharpness of claws is similar. However, some scholars admire the explosive power of tigers, and there is a crack on the concrete floor of the Lion Tiger Mountain Animal House in Beijing Zoo that was scratched by the Northeast Tiger. Peeled liger is strikingly similar and almost indistinguishable. From the anatomy, it is found that the heart capacity of tiger is larger than that of African lion.

4. The result of liger's meeting in nature.

Siberian tigers, based in Siberia, spread all over Eurasia and South Asia subcontinent, and developed into Bengal tiger subspecies, Caucasian tiger subspecies and South China tiger subspecies. Only the sea prevented them from entering America. Some individuals crossed the sea and entered the Indonesian archipelago, developing into a subspecies of Sumatra Lahu. From extreme cold to extreme heat, the tiger shows tenacious adaptability. The tiger moves alone, and only during the breeding period do the males and females get together for a few days, and the female tiger raises her cubs independently. It shows that the tiger's survival ability is stronger than that of the African lion.

African lions have entered the Arabian Peninsula and the South Asian subcontinent from the African continent. There was a competition between liger in India in history. Although there was no written record, the lion retreated to the northwest corner of India (called the Asian lion), and the Bengal tiger spread all over South Asia and Southeast Asia was the final result.

The above words are official materials I have read. I can't remember them clearly after a long time. The data may be wrong, but it is by no means a fabrication.

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In history, lions were once widely distributed. Apart from Africa and India, there were two subspecies of Greek lions and Iranian lions (West Asian lions), among which Iranian lions and Lihai tigers also had fierce competition for survival.

There are real examples of fighting in liger. In October, 1995, an African lion was killed by a Siberian tiger in an open zoo in a coastal city of China. One night, the gate separating the liger cage was opened due to a fault. Due to the principle of competition among large carnivores, the carnivores with equal strength either gave in to each other after meeting, and if there was no retreat, they had to last stand. As a result, when the staff arrived at the scene, the African lion had fallen dead in the middle of the tiger area! After investigation, the African lion invaded the tiger area after full preparation, but the result was that the Northeast Tiger was fatal. The Northeast Tiger hit the African lion in the throat for the first time and didn't give the opponent a chance to fight back! After killing his opponent, the Northeast Tiger dragged a lion twice its weight for more than 3 meters.

The Siberian tiger is the largest cat, and it is superior to the lion in physique at first. In terms of hunting skills, tigers have always been alone, hunting on their own, and their ability to fight alone is naturally strong; The way for lions to survive is to hunt in groups and pay attention to the ability of coordinated operations. Therefore, if they fight one by one, lions are no match for tigers.

Generally speaking, carnivores only hunt herbivores whose strength is less than or equal to it. For carnivores whose strength is equal to it, the principle of avoidance is generally adopted. For example, when tigers meet bears, especially big brown bears, they generally avoid each other, but in India, tigers sometimes hunt small crocodiles, and Bengal tigers can even grab food from crocodiles.

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There are tigers bigger than lions, and there are lions bigger than tigers. The lion's head looks magnificent, especially a pair of manes, which seems to be bigger than a tiger. In fact, the lion's body shape is relatively thin. Although the tiger's head is not so big, its body is very strong, and it is not smaller than the lion as many people think.

Nowadays, the natural distribution areas of lions and tigers are isolated from each other, so it is impossible for lions and tigers to meet in a fight in the wild. At present, it is generally believed that the ancient Asian cat fossils found in the south of China are the direct ancestors of tigers, and then migrated to the north, west and south, and evolved into different subspecies, covering almost the whole of Asia. Lions, on the other hand, are believed to have spread all over southern Europe, most of Asia and North America in prehistoric times. Therefore, in ancient central and western Asia, the distribution areas of lions and tigers overlapped.

Today, wild lions have almost disappeared in the Asian continent, and they can only be seen in a corner of Gil jungle area in northwest India. Tigers have become the representatives of Asian beasts, and they can be seen in the vast areas from Northeast Asia to South Asia, including most parts of India. Is this the result that the lion is not as powerful as the tiger?

I think not.

Adult lions are usually hunted by the lioness, and the male lion is responsible for defending the territory. Therefore, the male lion usually enjoys the success and is lazy. Tigers, on the other hand, act alone, alert, cunning and flexible. Physically, some kinds of male tigers are comparable to male lions, but if they fight alone, the lion is more likely to lose to the tiger. In the Colosseum in ancient Rome, liger fights were often staged, and the result was often that the tiger won (Figure 119, liger fights in the ancient Colosseum). However, in the natural environment, lions and tigers have little chance to fight one-on-one, because lions usually act in groups, while tigers are alone. Once a group fight, a lonely tiger will definitely suffer. Therefore, from a sociological point of view, lions are stronger than tigers.

Why did the lion give in to the tiger in India? I think there are two reasons:

1. Environmental impact.

Lions originated in Yuan Ye, Africa, and tigers originated in East Asian forests. They first adapted to the environment and climate of their places of origin, and then gradually expanded outward. The lion's group composition and hunting habits are suitable for the vast Yuan Ye, while the mountain jungle in the South Asian subcontinent is obviously more suitable for the tiger's survival and competition. On the other hand, liger has been competing for more than 1, years. Since tigers are strong enough to make lions retreat, why can't any tigers enter Africa? In fact, when it comes to West Asia and Arabia, it becomes that lions occupy the geographical position, and the open plateau and Gobi desert are conducive to the lion's group advantage, which makes the tiger stop.

2. The influence of human activities cannot be ignored.

Looking at the history of India, we can know that before the arrival of westerners, foreign invasions all entered the Indian subcontinent from the northwest, which is the way for lions to enter India, the early birthplace of Indian civilization, and the most seriously deteriorated natural environment in India. In other words, the lion's survival site is greatly disturbed by human factors. Indians, however, neither Buddhism nor Hinduism advocated killing, so wild animals (including tigers) in other regions were less influenced by human beings, which is why India still has a large number of rare birds and animals, and is called the "Wild Animal Kingdom". So it's not surprising that tigers in India are more widely distributed than lions.

In a word, the difference of geographical environment determines the different fighting styles and strategies of the lion and tiger. On the vast plains, it is suitable to give full play to the strength of the group, lock in the target, and wait for it. In the jungle, prey is easy to dodge, hide and escape, which requires higher individual fighting skills. It is no exaggeration to say that lions are strategists and tigers are tacticians. Strategists sleep when they are full and recharge their batteries. They are called "sleeping lions" in the world. Tacticists practice hard, know how to swim and all kinds of crawling skills, and there is a legend that they are not ashamed to learn from cats. Forcing the lion and tiger to fight to the death, then the tiger will definitely not be able to fight the lion in a group fight, and it is difficult for a lion to win the tiger. In the mountains of Asia, tigers who are good at using terrain to create momentum have the upper hand; In Ma Pingchuan, Africa, lions who are good at organizing sieges are dominant.

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Now the concept that tigers are better than lions has been generally recognized in academic circles. Here, the detailed data of tigers and lions are used to illustrate, and all the listed data are average.

liger, a healthy adult, is used below. Because of the great difference between the female lion and the male lion, the male lion is generally used as 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, which is a symbol of God, while the lion is just a gatekeeper and a symbol of wild animals.

This difference in subjective consciousness between the East and the West towards liger eventually led to the Millennium debate of liger Fight.

The fighting between wild animals often has a considerable advantage. It seems unconvincing that a big tiger is better than 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 liger's biting force, with tigers being slightly stronger, with tigers being about 45kg, lions being 4kg (attached: crocodile's rear end is about 1kg (22 lbs), and its front end is 77kg.

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 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 not strong enough and can only stand half upright, so the lion is not good at slapping, while the tiger's hind legs are strong.