Lions are tigers have biggest rivalry in the animal kingdom. Most people are often confused and want to know who will win between these two cats. So here you have details about who will win ?
Lion
Lions are no doubt are the strongest and one of the most powerful in the animal kingdom. Lions are the largest carnivores of the wild who needs a enough amount of meat to stay alive. They are one of those animals who can eat every animal animal which is present in the wild. But they mostly hunt for deers, wildebeest, wild buffaloes and wild boars. The females accomplish most of their family tasks like finding for food by hunting other animals.
While the male lions mostly stay inactive and do nothing other than sleeping. But they have only one task to complete in a day and that is guarding their premises and taking care of their cubs, when their mothers goes for hunt. Females are more agile, fast and active.
One thing that will keep you astound is that the lioness does not mate when their cubs are around or the point when their cubs reach a particular age. And that is why the lions eat their own cubs to just mate with lioness. Lions are really bad boys. As they are so strong, there are many rivals of them in the jungle like the tigers and hyenas. But mostly avoid any fight because they want to save their energy for hunting.
Some people exaggerate that they are more than 300 kg and were bigger than any other lion but the truth is that they were the same size of the african lion or even smaller than them.
Habitats
This deadly creature is found in the grassland of Africa, Savannah and mountains. In india the lions are found only in the Gir National park, the asiatic lions. The lions also found in the african rainforest and sahara desert.
Size and Appearance
The lions are sandy brown, some are reddish or white. They are around 3.2 to 3.5 feet tall and the male have manes(hairs around the head and face) and around 2.7 m long. The lions are between 190 to 200 kg in weight but some male lions are around 250 kg. So, the lions are slightly smaller than the tigers.
They look deadly and they are dangerous, their mane is what make them look confident and dangerous.
Bite force
The bite force of lions is not that much strong in comparison to other animals. They have around 650 PSI(Pounds per square inch) bite force. The english mastiff dog have around the same bite force as the lions.
Tiger
There were used to be 9 subspecies of tigers. The south chinese tiger, malayan tiger, indo-chinese tiger,siberian tiger, bengal tiger, sumataran tiger, caspian tiger, javan tiger and the bali tiger. And the 6 tiger species is alive today. The bengal tiger accounts for 50 percent of all the tigers in the world. Tigers are the biggest of all the cats. They have orange fur with black strips. Once living in the africa, the tigers went to the Asian continent. But sadly there are only 4000 tigers in the wild but in the year 1900 there were around 1 lakh tigers. But there are some projects implemented for their conservation.
Habitat
The tigers are diverse species they can be found in the south and south east asia, russia and china.
Size
They are around 3 to 3.5 feet tall and 4.6 long. They are usually 100 to 300 kg in the weight. They are among the largest carnivore in the cat family.
Bite force
Tigers have around the double bite force in comparison to lions. It is around 1,050 PSI, that is something of a bite! But the leopards have the highest bite force of all the cats which is around 1500 PSI.
Results
I know some people will agree with the results and some will not that is completely ok. Even the zoologists community and wildlife community have confusion. But most of the experts says and even can prove that the tiger will beat the lion. Seeing a fight between lions and tigers is very rare because they don't want to fight. But some footages and some actual studies have seen the tiger beating and even ambushing lions.
So, yes we can say tigers are the winner(by size, agile, powerful and even have double bite force than lion).
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