Tigers have good endurance?

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@GuateGojira : Schaller compared the lion's and tiger's speed. He told that if any lion was able to outrun any tiger on 100 meters, no one lion could compete with a tiger on the first 20 meters. I see in this comparaison that tiger was more an ambush predator on very short distances than lion. And in my mind, it is what reflects the difference of hunting inside two different biotops: open savannah for the lion, covered and dense jungle for the tiger.

The tiger would be the "internal combustion engine" feline. But otherwise, as @Shadow says, we cannot generalize and compare the tiger's speed with the cheetah's speed. The adrenalin rush could make believe that if it is continued the tiger could compete with a cheetah, but it's impossible. We are speaking about two different things: brutal attack over a few meters (tiger) and maximal speed reached after a full short but complete acceleration (cheetah). If I want to extrapolate in the extreme can we compare the speed of a professionnal boxer's fist that is going to hit the opponent's face with the 100 meters sprinter's speed ?

But I could be agree with you to state that perhaps among felines the tiger's adrenalin rush is unequalled. Although the lion's is very violent as well as the leopard's and jaguar's. Reply