Lion and Tiger Fight Interaction in Zoo, Circus or Any Other Captive Places

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(02-23-2019, 10:25 AM)Spalea Wrote: @Rishi :

About #49: you said " She answers in a casual manner... But i think that is actually a really good explanation of their behaviour! (plus her credentials would gives her opinions significance) "

Well, when I answered "Comic and caricatured", I didn't think or say it was wrong. Male lion behaves as if the tiger belongs to the group he has in charge, OK... Caricatured because I am not sure that the lion is such a command maniac. I said that the lion gauged and tested the tiger but, IMO, doesn't want too push too far his "pride leader" status (because this striped guy has very powerful paws !...).  Thus doesn't absolutely want to put the pressure on the tiger like in this dialog/dialogue.

When looking at lions and tigers and how they behave, it really doesn´t demand too much understanding to see how tension can be built up between them. One way to do it is like in video you posted, put a male lion and some tiger in small cage and throw in some meat. Male lion will go to eat first and it will be ready to fight for it if any other animal tries to eat before or even same time as it does. So tiger has no options, it can fight or back off, because lion goes for it and makes it clear.  That is one reason why I dislike a lot what can be seen in some of these videos. 

It can look so smooth thing in some recordings, where these animals can eat side by side, but in those situations there are animals living together from cubs and very used to each others. What comes to real fights, those happens and sometimes lion dies, sometimes tiger. I don´t know what is the big deal in that then, it is as it is. If some fights happen in wildlife, it is up to animals and in that there is no reason to interfere by people, imo. But when people capture and put animals in cages, supervised enclosures, then I think, that people have responsibility to keep animals in good conditions and not putting those in situations, which are obviously creating tension and aggressive behavior. 

It is quite clear, that we can see many times how tiger backs off. But then there are also situations where it doesn´t happen and fight, more or less serious one, starts. And this Chinese zoo is obviously one place, where they could and should do things a lot better to avoid those totally unnecessary fights. They really don´t seem to care at all because I just can´t believe, that they would be that ignorant. Reply