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(12-30-2018, 04:23 PM)brotherbear Wrote: Well, with no science lab documents, my logic tells me to look at lifestyles. The lion hunts mostly large herbivores in open country. He is a group-hunter. The tiger is mostly a loner who prefers wooded forests. But both the leopard and the puma live and hunt is open country, forests, tropics, and mountains, from hot climates to very cold climates. So, would this greater adaptability be a sign of intelligence?
Same goes for tiger, from siberia to Indonesia, dense forests, open plains of Deccan, semi deserts of central Asia, hell of mangrove jungle in Sundarbans, high mountains of Himalayas...all this with being substantially larger than leopard and puma (requires more food and is more visible). There is no doubt that tiger is incredibly adaptable felid.