Tiger-Lion Coexistence in Eurasia between Middle Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs

[Sanju]

(12-31-2018, 01:53 PM)Rage2277 Wrote: seems like they don't really have a preferred habitat,but rather seek areas where potential prey roam,which are mainly herd animals..won't find many tigers or any lions in areas with say only hog deer or muntjac

I agree with you but I'm replying this just because you said this "seems like they don't really have a preferred habitat". They do have a preferred habitat. A tiger don't want to live in a desert and a Lion don't want live in a Ever green Tropical Rain Forest. They may live based on abiotic and biotic factors (may or may not be successful to survive it depends on various things though) but I'm saying "prefer".

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https://web.archive.org/web/201203101741...ENTID=8073

Pocock thought that it was unlikely that serious competition between them regularly occurred, and that even if Indian lions and tigers met, the chance that they would fight for survival was as good as the chance that they would choose to avoid each other, and that their chances of success, if they were to clash, were as good as each other's.

https://archive.org/stream/PocockMammali...1/mode/2up

Tigers requires more water and drinks water daily when compared to lion. They evolved for their own environment and habitat and specialized their coats according to the cover and surroundings of their habitat to camouflage, ambush, stalk and hunt their game. So yes, they have preferred habitat Reply