Comparing Cats: A Discussion of Similarities & Differences

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@Shadow :

About #318: agree with what you told. If my memory doesn't abuse me, John Varty claimed that lions were unable to crunch a tortoise's shell. We know it's quite wrong, lions can do that as well as tigers do. But if he tested a lion which, perhaps, didn't want to taste the turtle's flesh, then he claims any truth he wants. And they were millions of idiot guys who were going to believe it as a truth.

@"Khan85" gived these bite force figures with a 162 kilos-weighed lion and a 177 kilos-weighed tiger. Perhaps it wouldn't be wrong that a more than 200 kilos-weighed lion's and tiger's bite force would be equal and more important, wouldn't be ?

I have, initially, accomplished a scientific formation too (master of geology), but too many numbers kill the demonstration. We have to learn distancing ourselves from them and keep a modicum of common sense.

To conclude, the biggest felids, tigers and lions, have the most performing bite force. Revolutionary truth isn't it ? As simple as that.

I don't want to be content with simple truth with lot of numbers. There is something which is impalpable for lot of "scientific" people: the animal's personality. And I will never doubt that felids have a huge of that. Reply