Personal Opinion & Speculations

[LonePredator]

(12-30-2021, 04:25 AM)Spalea Wrote: @LonePredator :

About #48: I seriously think that you are overestimating the tiger's strength, tiger's potentialities, too much. I understand that you are admiring the striped cat, but here you're completely raving. The only way for lions to survive in a savannah dominated by tigers would be to grow smaller in size. Big gag !
During the prehistoric times, unlike the tigers, lions were everywhere, in Africa, in America, in Europa, and in Siberia despite a much fierce competition than nowaday (bears, shot faced bears, grey wolves, sabertooth cats... And tigers). And now because they would face to a new predator, their only way to adapt would be becoming smaller in size. It isn't rational, only fanaticism.
Even if the tiger is the most powerful extant big cat, a fight between a lion and a tiger isn't a one-sided fight. Sometimes the tiger wins, sometimes lion. You just need to read some accounts by  tamers who mixed them.

You can think I'm raving, you can think what you want, you're free to do that. But the thing is, you are not looking at this with an open and rational mindset. You are just defending Lions.

You talk about those American and European Lions. Do you know different those American Lions and Cave Lions were? They were completely different species. They were so different from Lions that the Cave Lions actually diverged from these Lions more than 2 million years ago

And in the end you drag Clyde Beatty's Lion vs Tiger fights into this discussion which is hilarious. We will not debate on who wins a fight between a Tiger and a Lion but keep this in mind, Tigers have the advantage in nearly every single aspect.

You are unable to comprehend this simple concept here, Tigers are larger and stronger plus they are better hunters. They regularly hunt one ton gaurs again and have hunted huge pachyderms before.

They are big in size because they feed on large prey. When an animal has been feeding on large prey, they grow in size. When the animal stats feeding on smaller prey, they get smaller in size.

Tigers would take bigger prey and a lot of the Tigers' food will come out of the Lion's part. As their intake decreases, the lions would grow smaller in size to be able to sustain themselves.

It's either they grow smaller to satisfy themselves with what they have or they keep competing with Tigers which is unlikely. The competition is bad for both the animals but one is obviously more likely to survive and the other would perish (and the one to survive would likely be Tigers because they have several advantages for interspecies conflict as I stated before). Why is it difficult for you to understand??

Although, the Tigers would also perish if they can't adapt and become social in which case the Lions would claim their lives in territorial conflicts. In fact, I'm even saying this is the most realistic possible outcome, few Tigers outnumbered and the Lions gang up on them and they won't survive.

But if the Tigers do get social then this has to turn out in favour of the Tigers and it will prove to be a huge threat to the existence of Lions.

I just advise you to keep an open mind about this and it's great that you admire Lions, I do too but nature obviously does not care about our admiration of Lions. Reply