Zoos, Circuses, Safaris: A Gallery of Captivity

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(09-11-2016, 08:22 PM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: @Spalea

The lion canine is powerful, it is indeed capable to bring down the big prey by itself.

But some tiger canines are just overkill, it is strong in a ridiculous way. This pantherine species seems to have invested more in the canine area in its evolutionary path.

As for the claws, it is almost identical for the largest lion and largest tiger.

I wouldn't pretend some tigers' canines to be overkill. I can conceive than a solitary tiger cannot afford to be wounded during a hunt and thus can make use some (a bit) longer canines being more able to inflict a quicker death. Lions in pride have more options. In wild nothing is free. In short I can consider an adult tiger as being the most performing solitary predator among the big cats, while the lion has evolved in a different way as both being a social and solitary predator. Reply