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09-02-2014, 11:21 AM( This post was last modified: 09-02-2014, 05:20 PM by Amnon242 )
(09-01-2014, 07:42 PM)Apollo Wrote: I do understand your point.
A fight within the same subspecies of bigcats could be due to grudge, dominance, food, mate, territory etc. In this cases the animals can kill each other or injure each other without killing
A fight between male tiger/male lion against other bigcats is mainly due to food and eradicate competition. If a male tiger/lion try to steal a kill from other bigcats it will just chase them off (the main motive here is chasing off), but when they see them as food and competition they will just kill them (the main motive here is to kill) and when they are in the killing mode, well they go for the kill no matter what (most of the times).
Its better to avoid captive animals, as we know it doesnt represent the wild cousins in this case. Because we have seen lion pairs being chased in circles by buffalo calf.
We are in agreement that if the tiger/lion is in a killing mode, than jaguar has little chance to defend himself. We are also in agreement that tiger/lion would chase off jaguar quite easily.
But I´m talking about yet different situation (and about captive animals, ofc - as they can´t meet each other in nature :) )