Personal Opinion & Speculations

[LonePredator]

(12-29-2021, 02:48 PM)Spalea Wrote: If the tigers were going to live in the African savannahs, they should have to adapt in this new biotop for them. Yes !
But we only consider this problem by the means of the tigers potentialities. A new huge predator going on stage isn't an insignificant event for the whole native predators "community". And especially the apex predator of this biotop for a long time: the lions.
The tigers would have to adapt in order to thrive in the savannahs by becoming social predators ? The lions would have to adapt too in front of an opponent they didn't know before. And same thing as concerns the other social predators: hyenas and African wild dogs.
It would be anything but an one-sided conflict.

(01-19-2022, 01:50 PM)LandSeaLion Wrote: Honestly, I don’t think there’s any prey that tigers take down that would be off-limits to lions. Lions in Botswana have been documented taking down adult African elephants, which is literally the biggest prey possible, short of them becoming sea-land-sea-lions and hunting whales.

(As for one-on-one territorial fights between a lion and a tiger, I disagree entirely with the notion that one would be guaranteed to “slaughter” the other; on the whole I see them as being very evenly matched. I’ve seen how ridiculously heated online arguments about this topic can get though, and I also note that “vs topics” are in fact supposed to be banned here, so that’s as far as I’ll go on the topic!)

Since you are making such a claim, do you have any proof of Lions killing adult elephants? And even if it did happen it was likely done by a huge group of lions not a single individual so there is a big difference Reply