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

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(02-23-2019, 02:26 PM)Sanju Wrote:

(02-23-2019, 02:17 PM)paul cooper Wrote: The tiger has no option but to let the lion eat and wait to get fed by the keeper (as the tiger knows that it will get fed, they arent competing for the food). What is going to happen? You cant expect the tiger to fight. If the tiger is being starved, then he will fight to kill the lion, tigers dont live in same social dynamics as lions and are solitary animals. Again.. read Kizmans post, that is basically what she is trying to say.

I agree.

There is one difference in behavior naturally. Lion will fight for food, starving or not, if not just eaten. It is just how it does it. Tiger should be a really really confident individual to challenge a lion in these circumstances and it is very hard to be that when other animal is showing, that it won´t back down without a fight, no matter what. In that way lion is somewhat different and really forcing tiger to back off many times.

Of course if there is a tiger not backing off for some reason, then fight happens and result can be anything, impossible to know when two animals so equals in size and strength go for it. Of course lion fanboys scream how lion always win and tiger fanboys have same determination to say just the opposite. If just both groups would have same determination to send complaints to places, where these both magnificent animals are mistreated like can be seen in many videos..... maybe then those zoo keepers would be irritated enough to have some focus to change something. Reply