Are Tigers 'Brainier' Than Lions?

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(10-31-2014, 03:42 PM)'Spalea' Wrote:

(06-30-2014, 06:32 PM)'Pantherinae' Wrote: I do also have the opinion that tigers, are more intelligent. 
In the zoo where I work, we separate all the tigers, and also do the same with lions. All cats have their own feeding cage, and tigers do know that, even the new female learn that on only one mounth! So they line up and now the faster I close the gates, the faster they wil get food! 
While the lions are starting to argue and fight, and we have to lure them in to their separate cages, still and the oldest lions have been there for 7 years! 


 

Sorry, I just read again this thread... You are judging the intelligence of these both cats from your own man's point of view. This is the anthropomorphism.
Why the fact of fighting would it be less a proof of intelligence than the fact of waiting for calmly ? Only because you have to waste your time by luring them into their separate cages ?
I just could tell that the lions are only more extrovert animals.


 

 

Fighting on kill has nothing to do with intellegence, and that is not what we are saying at all.
Antle specifically talks about more "focus", "figuring problems out" with the tiger compared to the lion. He is not the only one, many experts and trainers say the same.
But lets throw all of that away and go off of fact.
The FACT remains, Tigers have a much larger brain, their skulls are evolved to have a larger brain case to support the larger brain and this is for a reason. Nothing will change that and that is the most proof needed in this debate.


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