Zoos, Circuses, Safaris: A Gallery of Captivity

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(03-31-2018, 10:31 PM)sanjay Wrote: Lion dominance...

This is my personal opinion and nothing else.


In this video the lion was definitely the aggressor.
Lions being a more social cat tends to be the aggressor generally when females are in heat. But in this case the lion was chasing a tigress or a small tiger and endsup crossing a big male tiger and carried on the aggression.

I noticed 3 things happening in a fraction of time.
The charging lion slipped a bit in the right hind leg which didn't allow him to continue the charge properly which made the tiger to miss his pawswipe from hitting the lion. Thus both cats didn't touch each other physically. If u pause the video we can clearly see the tigers swipe missing the lion by few inches due to the slip. In the mean time the guy outside shouted at the cats helping them to come out of that snap and move away. 

Incase if that swipe had hit the lion, it might have triggered both the cats to fight a bit longer. Well thank god it didn't happen. Reply