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

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

Quote: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

Coexistence in the Eurasian wilderness
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The British cyclopæedia of natural history
"Genetic variation in Asiatic lions and Indian tigers"

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College of Biological SciencesPacker, CraigUniversity of Minnesota
Tales of travellers; or, A view of the world
PocockMammalia1
Tiger and Lion ecology in Indian subcontinent
http://repository.ias.ac.in/89489/1/50p.pdf
"Lion"

Quote:According to Colin Tudge (2011), given that both cats hunt large herbivores, it is likely that they had been in competition in Asia. Despite their social nature, lions might have competed with tigers on an individual basis, as they would with each other.

The Engineer in the Garden

The modern lion and tiger were present in Eurasia since the Pleistocene, when now-extinct relatives also existed there.
Mlekopitajuščie Sovetskogo Soiuza. Moskva: Vysšaia Škola

Reginald Innes Pocock (1939) mentioned that some people had the opinion that the tiger played a role in the near-extinction of the Indian lion, but he dismissed this view as 'fanciful'. According to him, there was evidence that tigers inhabited the Subcontinent, before lions. The tigers likely entered Northern India from the eastern end of the Himalayas, through Burma, and started spreading throughout the area, before the lions likely entered Northern India from Balochistan or Persia, and spread to places like the Bengal and the Nerbudda River.

Because of that, before the presence of man could limit the spread of lions, tigers reached parts of India that lions did not reach. However, the presence of tigers throughout India did not stop the spread of lions there, in the first place, so Pocock said that it is unlikely that Bengal tigers played a role, significant or subordinate, in the near-extinction of the Indian lion, rather, that man was responsible for it, as was the case with the decline in tigers' numbers.

As such, 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. Reply