Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

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great debate guy's. 

I personaly don't like the Idea of lions and tigers living together today with so little space, there would be huge problems if one cat where the victorious and the totaly dominant spicies.
lions and tigers are living very different lives, but physical they are very similar and no cat can really escape the other cat they are both cat's that's used to be the dominant unlike leopards, they are not ment to be on guard from other carnivores they both let's their pressence known. MHO is that I think one on one a bengal tiger would defeat a lone asiatic lion, but again two male lions would take any tiger. so it depends on how connected male lions would be if they where moved to a place with more prey and also tigers.

it also depends on how the situation is, I think if there was a male lion with cubs and his lionesses and a tiger made an apparence, he would charge the tiger without hesitating, and I think (almost guarantee) the lionesses would follow him.

one on one: the tiger wins.
two on one: lions win.
so the senario can go either way. but I think if there comes lions into Ranthambore it could get really dramatic, and both spicies should be preserved not wipe eachoter out.  
the biggest problem is for lionesses and tigresses with cubs.   

in the places where they coexisted (India), they avoided each other based on they own ecology, as they are adapted to two COMPLETELY different habitats, tigers to the close-forest habitat and lions to the open-savanna habitat (Sunquist, 1981).

A lion - tiger fight/conflict has no blueprint it can go either way: although I love both species it's important to remember they are just animals ofcourse incredable in their own way both of them, but they are no super animal, and that's why I like this thread and site, there is usually no nonsense from fan boy's, posting just bullsh@t. lions and tigers are probably the most amazing carnivores we have! honest!!!! but also the most overrated animals on the planet alongside gorillas, and that's just sad.... Reply