Are Tigers 'Brainier' Than Lions?

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Tigers, much like polar bears, have a more unpredictable sensation to them: it is hard to read their emotions than let's say, lions or brown bears. The latter two project their emotions more often before they get aggressive or violent. I've seen videos of nonchalant-looking tigers seemingly walking around each other when both, all of a sudden, attack each other without warning. At least lions warn their opponents. Unpredictability is just a personality or species-related trait, not a sign of possible intelligence.

I've always said this, but intelligence is an impossible thing to ultimately assess, whether between species or even in human beings. Much like physical strength between differently-built species. Tigers might have a more emotionally-scavenging (meaning more emotional depth), individualistic intelligence, and a more constantly-analytical mind than lions do, but lions have better team-coordination intelligence, possibly more social intelligence, and probably some intelligence elsewhere. But again, total intelligence is impossible to assess. I will tell you one thing, though; I put big cats on the higher intelligence scale than great apes and even equal to humans and bears! That is only personal opinion, though.

Overall, even if tigers do have a greater total brain size than lions, it isn't evident (or at least discussed) about which parts of the brain are bigger in relation to others in both lions and tigers. It is like men and women: men have a larger brain, but some parts of both men's and women's brains are larger than the other ratio-wise. Reply