Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

[Sanju]

(04-21-2019, 04:51 PM)Shadow Wrote: I put these here just to show, that territory as a term can be many things:

https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Interspecific_Terr.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273238046_The_Ecological_Consequences_of_Interspecific_Territorial_Behavior_in_Birds

So my point is, that in this matter there can be difficult to find one and only truth. And what comes to lions and tigers for instance, maybe and hopefully time will tell us how their coexistence happens. I say hopefully because I hope, that in future there would be more lions and tigers in India than today, but time will tell.

This is quote from that stanfor link: "Generally such interspecific territoriality occurs between species that are very similar -- as might be expected if territoriality is a way of guarding resources or mates."

What you said is right. A good example indeed. But that is observed in b/w birds that too in a few species in this vast avian diversity coz almost all bird species can recognize their own species and stick to intra specific territoriality.

Albeit, there is no evidence that Lion and Tiger had the same behavior like those birds when they coexisted coz their interaction is never documented in the wild. But there is complete evidence that they coexisted for tens of thousands of years undoubtedly and that didn't happen without any strategy.

Can you give such examples for mammals (interspecific territoriality) as they are more intelligent and have cognitive skills than birds to distinguish their conspecies (of course some birds are one of the most intelligent animals on the planet but not all) ? Reply