Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

[Rishi]

(02-13-2019, 03:31 PM)Sanju Wrote:

(02-13-2019, 03:00 PM)Rishi Wrote: Although i have serious doubts that tigress with cubs will go into any kind of interaction with a whole pride (of 4-5 lionesses, otherwise the age of her cubs would come into play). If experienced coalition males choose to expand their borders i doubt a male tiger can confront them alone

are you saying there are territories b/w lions and tigers or tiger-leopard or what ever and they invade each other?

Yep. Unlike with leopards or wolves with whom some degree of coexistance happens (still increasing tiger numbers in the reserves are pushing out leopards to the fringes), lions-tigers share the same prey niche.

Space & resources being limited, just like Amur tigers push out wolves or Bengals do dholes from a region, these two are highly likely to see interspecies tension... maybe once numbers rise, maybe from first contact. 
We don't really have an idea about the threshold.

They may or may not (hard to tell at this point) treat each other like tigers/lions as @Pantherinae suggests, like feral dogs/jackals/wolves often do, they even mate. All of us are just speculating. He could be right & you wrong.
You're going to stop dismissing him like that.

The grassland-forest thing is all theory too...
But in reality you know well that Asiatic lions have nothing against dense jungle vegetation either. This is going to be a common sight whether Barda or Kuno.

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