Are Tigers 'Brainier' Than Lions?

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-So now Craig Saffoee is a trainer?
-These are not "dogs and cats" they are "cats and cats"
-This is in regards to lion and tiger brains, not leopard and tiger, lions and tigers have similar sized skulls and tigers have a far larger brain case and many Biologists and trainers back them being smarter
-Eleaborate on "harder to train" what would that have to do with being smarter?
Many more trainers state tigers as being individuals, always scanning surroundings,  more unpredictable, etc...
Individuality is a sign of intellegence, follow the leader is refusing to think on your own, no matter how you slice it.

Clyde Beatty was a super lion supporter yet he makes specific mention of tigers and their intellegenceClyde BeattyIt doesn't seem a coincidence that all the intelligent 'prison-breaks' by the circus animals mentioned by Beatty, are by tigers. About a tigress, Gracie, he mentions, "Certain aspects of Gracie's behavior interested me more than the escape itself - her cunning, for instance. ……… This cleverly executed escape called for ability to fool people completely." He recalls "another escape that ranks with Gracie's nocturnal adventure" where sixteen tigers collaborated to make an escape route! In another incident, a Siberian tiger named Monarch had made a similar intelligent escape. Beatty went on about intelligent tigers: "The most shrewdly calculated escape that I can recall was carried out by Big Ross, the brainiest tiger I've ever handled. What this animal succeeded in doing called for a careful study of the prospects, the decision that it was possible to break loose and the cleverest kind of planning for each and every step involved. ……… It was an astonishing feat and Big Ross had figured it out perfectly


Alfred CourtAlfred Court,"the celebrated animal trainer, mentioned, "Tigers are my weakness. Despite my satisfaction in our eleven lion, …… This set me free to return to my seven tigers, who were, and always would be, my consuming passion. I have trained many cats since then, but it is that princely pleiad that I remember most affectionately today." In the same chapter he said, "….. the trick is less risky with a lion, for tigers in general are more intelligent."

another study
"well a study was done to find out more than intelligence,BFQ of various carnivores...and if we look at the table then we find a tiger has more intelligence than a lion...this was a scientific study made by scientists...4 tigers were used and the BOM worked out to be 160kgs...6 lions were used and the BOM or body mass worked out to be 176kgs...apparentlly the tigers may have been tigresses or sumatran/indo chinese tigers...here the lions BOM was higher than tigers

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from the table it shows
tigers are a lot smarter than lions...the Encephalization Quotient of lion is lower than tigers.
the tigers BOM was 159.2kgs and the lions was 176kgs.
the EQ of the lion was 65.5 and the EQ of tigers was 84.4
so what is Encephalization Quotient?
Brain to body mass ratio (also known as the Encephalization Quotient or EQ) is a rough estimate of the possible intelligence of an organism.

Dolphins have the highest brain to body mass ratio of all cetaceans. Sharks have the highest for a fish, and octopuses have the highest for an invertebrate. Humans have a higher brain to body mass ratio than any of these animals.

tigers are smarter and more intelligent than lions and a scientific study conducted suggests lions are less intelligent than tigers...tigers score a point here also...tigers are a lot smarter than the lions
http://en.w...pedia.org/w.../Brain_to_body_mass_ratio"

There are many more quotes and studies as well.

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