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(04-27-2022, 12:01 AM)Spalea Wrote: That being said, I didn't believe that the size difference between sexes was greater among lions than among tigers. Thus, are tigers especially macho too ? Tigers are solitary animals but the males don't seem to be as rough towards females as in the case of lions.

After lions, tigers are the more sexually dimorphic, so much that Dr Sunquist stated that the skulls of males and females may be so different in some cases that they look like different species.

Tigers are solitary but are not antisocial, they have several ways to communicate each other in they large and normally close habitats, where a roar can't be heard more than 3 km. Male tigers had the same schedule of life as male lions, they need to grow and get a territory, rise cubs and try to stay alive, with the only difference that they need to do it alone. The tenure may be relatively longer (or shorter, depending of the "social" situation in the are, check the case of Chitwan, for example) but they face the same dangers, as a younger stronger male can kill you and kill your cubs. The only difference is that tigers need to travel trough they terrirtory and can't stay to much time in a single area as male lions do (terrirorial marks do not last more than 7 days), also they are more "polite"with tigresses with cubs as tiger society shows "priority rights" over the animal that made the kill (with some exceptions, of course), so cubs are allowed to eat even before the dominant male.

Finally, on the size, they have the same difference as in lions, with males been over 50% bigger than females. Reply