Which are stronger pound for pound Herbivores or Carnivores?

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(12-04-2016, 12:37 AM)Polar Wrote: For brute strength, though, I think an average, full-grown male Bengal Tiger can horizontally pull at most three tons of weight with his forelimbs, and a little over one ton with just his jaws. A gaur (2000-pound one), assuming it would pull in the mannerism that a draft horse or an ox would, can pull up to fifteen tons due to a greater muscle mass percentage than the ox and a larger size than the ox (a single ox weighing 1000-pounds can pull five tons). Also, I do think wild bovines are pound-for-pound stronger than their domestic counterparts, as with most wild animals and domesticated animals. The tiger uses his arms/jaws, and the gaur is holstered here.

If comparing pulling weight/body weight ratios between the two, it would compute this:

Tiger (jaws) = 5 - 5.2x body weight
Tiger (forelimbs) = 13.75 - 15x body weight
Gaur (holstered) = 15x body weight

Note how the tiger and the guar are similar in pound-for-pound horizontal pulling strength, but in different ways. As stated earlier, strength is difficult to assess, but I would easily give the edge to an equally-sized tiger.

Equally sized tiger? I don't think so. Gaurs are much bigger than tiger on average almost twice atleast. Being herbivore there must be some limitation in the gaur which the tiger must have known hunting it through generations. I honestly do not feel a tiger must be stronger pound for pound though I am a hardcore fan. Or at least not as strong as rhino pound for pound. Reply