Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project

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I said: "lions would be more successful than tigers in habitat that suits both of them"

I know, but we are speaking of a place where lions would run into conflict with tigers. Since the only places in india where this could happen are tiger habitat, that is the only place they would encounter each other. A tiger will have the advantage any where in India where tigers are common, its their terrain.


"Gabbar lost, but he is alive. Katezari was satisfied with Gabbars submission and probably didnt want to risk a deadmatch (risk of serious injury in such a fight) . But I think that tigers would be more motivated to enter a deadmatch even with lion of comparable strength, because lion is different species so I think that this would be confrontation of different level."

Gabbar can easily die from infection, injury etc. This remains to be seen, the fights he has are very serious. In fact, any fight with a big cat is serious. Death can come from a throat bite but it can also come from a injured dew claw. The wild doesn't care, if you can't hunt you will die.


"If conflict arouse the meeting would most likely be a battle between 2-3 individuals." - I think that 2 lions would have won against 1 tiger. (ofc Im not talking about 2 subadult females against Wagdoh)
Maybe Two males defeat a single male tiger, maybe not. I have seen multiple males loose to single prime territory holding males in Tigers and Lions.
Gir Males usually are by themselves so and even if a coalition of a couple of males form, that doesn't mean they are together all the time. Males like to separate and search on their own then come together other times. Reply