Lion and Tiger Fight Interaction in Zoo, Circus or Any Other Captive Places

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(08-13-2020, 06:52 PM)Spalea Wrote:

(08-13-2020, 06:16 PM)Pantherinae Wrote:

(08-10-2020, 06:14 PM)Apollo Wrote:

(08-10-2020, 04:31 PM)Spalea Wrote: @sanjay :

About #164: one time the lion wins (Dubai, more serious by far), an other time it's the tiger... As long as they will be fenced in the same area, such fights or skirmishs will happen.

Naah.
In both the videos posted by @sanjay and @Sanju the tiger was the dominant one of the two.

May I ask how did you conclude that either animal was dominat in those two videos? I see one animal (lion) protecting a female and the other (tiger) being curious. Small "fights" breaks out, but neither comes out looking dominant at all. And the fact that they both come back to have these small brawls all the time shows to me that they don’t fear eachother at all and that neither seems to be the dominant animal.

You want to wait for an animal be seriously wounded (like in Dubai) in order to say the other one is dominant ? It's always the same which initiates the small fights and the other one which retreats. It isn't serious but in this sequence the lion plays its role as dominant male, and the tiger is only curious but not very involved. Until proven otherwise the lionesses remain under the control of the lion.

What? No just from my own personal experience with captive cats where two male are being kept together, it was pretty clear to see who indeed was the dominant one. It will be different when we talk about two males from seperate species, but I can not see the tiger here being the dominant individual as Apollo claimed. That’s it... Reply