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

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News of the tiger’s arrival stirred hopes that he would continue his westward trek and eventually reach Gir’s safe haven about 300 miles away. How he would react once he encountered some of the nearly 600 Gir forest lions and leopards was uncertain.

Quote:“It all depends on the prey,” says "Tara Pirie", a zoologist and big cat expert at the University of Reading, in the U.K., who has studied tigers in Sumatra. “If there are sufficient prey, then they should manage to coexist,” even if sharing a relatively small area. @Lycaon 

Gir Forest National Park encompasses 550 square miles of deciduous forests of teak, acacia, and banyan trees, some scrub jungle, and large patches of grassland.

Quote:“It is suitable habitat for tigers and has Sambar deer, nilgai, wild boar,” Pirie says, as well as other animals that tigers and Asiatic lions hunt. Leopards, she notes, generally take small-to-medium-size prey, such as Axis deer.

(Read more about Asia's lions, which live in one last place on Earth.)

Quote:Lions and tigers used to coexist across many parts of India, as well as in western and Central Asia—"usually in different habitats"(prefer)—until the end of the 1800s (19th century)

By then, hunting and poaching had driven most populations to extinction.

The animals also suffered from the loss of prey and habitat as farming, timber harvests, new roads, and settlements—and a growing human population—shrank their forest homes.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/anima...l8BfG0bc4U

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