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Who wins, /an/?
>> Anonymous
hmmmm dunno. but i do know that tigers can kill crocs and eat them but never heard a lion doing the same.
Sooooo im gonna say tiger. uppercut
>> That Gomez
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I do
>> Anonymous
Tigers. We had this discussion several times.
>> Anonymous
Neither. They fuck and make a liger.
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>>308637
heh forgot pic
>> Anonymous
>>308617
>>308639

This thread is now about bears vs ligers.
>> Anonymous
>>308664
Liger wins, because of awesome.
>> Anonymous
>>308671
but the faggot is sterile, so it loses in the end.

no babies = loss
>> Anonymous
>>308781


Wrong! Only male ligers are sterile. Female ligers can breed successfully with either lions or tigers.
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>> Anonymous
Tigers are bigger, usually.
>> Anonymous
tigers win. they're actually way bigger and muscular
>> Anonymous
If it's one on one, Tigers. Tigers are solitary hunters, lions hunt in a pack and rely on one another to help out in the kill. Tigers are also bigger, more muscular and heavier than lions.
>> Anonymous
In a tiger vs lion fight the lion would most likely win.

Male lions are built to fight, tigers have adapted to both fight and hunt. A tiger would win over a female lion, but lose to a male.

Also, the extra size on Siberian Tigers comes mostly from extra body fat, not more muscle. Cold climate dictates the need for extra energy reserves.
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When you need it, and don't have it, you sing a different tune.
>> Anonymous
Lion, probably. Male lions spend their lives beating the shit out of other male lions, so they can fight. When they hunt, they usually hunt solo and can take down prey that requires an entire group of lionesses.

In reality, if you threw a lion and a Bengal in a cage to fight, it would probably come down to luck of the draw: whichever one got that bite to the spine in first.
>> Anonymous
If the tiger is a Bengal tiger, it wins. If it's a Siberian tiger, it will refuse to fight the lion (so the lion wins, in a way). We know this from actual lion vs. tiger fights.
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How physically capable are Ligers? I know they are awesome, but do they have anything beyond their size?

I'm just thinking that they may be Robert Wadlow on four legs. The guy was enormous, but could bearly walk.
>> Anonymous
There's a video out there of a male lion vs male tiger. Tiger wins twice, not to the death, but obvious dominance. They were in the same enclosure and the lion wanted to make a liger/tigon with the male tiger's bitch.
>> Anonymous
>>309470
That's a relevant question, actually. Since the liger has the build of a normal pantherine cat but it's a scaled up version of those proportions, it has proportionally less muscular strength than a normal lion or tiger. While they still have more strength in absolute terms, that doesn't help, since their added mass means they have to use proportionally more strength for every movement they make. That's why ligers tire out much faster than lions or tigers. And knowing that while a Bengal tiger is smaller than a lion, it defeat one in an one-on-one battle, strength clearly isn't the decisive factor. Therefore, a liger is probably going to be inferior to both parent species due to lack of stamina to make up for it's extra mass.
>> Anonymous
They had this fight in Animorphs, guys. The lion won.
>> Anonymous
>>309832
Well, case closed. That has to be the absolute scientific truth if it was in Animorphs.
>> Anonymous
>>309829
May I ask where you got this information? The results of hybridization fascinate me. I was also wondering if strength and stamina is always predictable, or if there is some variation based on how the genes mix. eg. like how mules are typically stronger than either parent, but coat color, ear length, tail type and other degrees of "horseness" or "donkeyness" vary among individuals.
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>>308617

False. Tigers have actually been known to kill and eat Brown Bears in the wild.

Tigers are also documented to beat lions.
>> Anonymous
tldr:

tigers are far superior
>> Anonymous
>>309845
Bunch of places, mostly the Nat.Geo document on ligers, also messybeast, wikipedia and a site I can't remember the name of right now, but it should come up at or near the top if you google "liger hybrid".
>> Anonymous
Male lions are fat and lazy and only get off their asses to fight off another fat and lazy male over fucking rights. Tigers are solitary and fend for themselves on a daily basis, not to mention much bigger and more muscular. I'm going to say tiger.
>> Anonymous
God I hate this debate

nb4100posts

Oh and I'll just leave this here

http://indrajit.wordpress.com/2006/03/11/lion-vs-tiger-clash-of-the-titans/
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>>309878
I love messybeast, but I didn't know NGeo made a liger special; sounds awesome.

http://www.messybeast.com/
>> Anonymous
>>309910
tigon is superior
>> Anonymous
how about the tigon?
>> Anonymous
LIGER LIGER LIGER
>> Anonymous
>>308617
>>309875
My uncle works in the forestry service. Said that grizzly bears were turning up dead, bitten on the back of the neck and then devoured, hallmark of jaguar attacks. One site where a bear was found dead had been flattened in a half-acre radius, where apparently the jaguar had struck, but not finished, the bear and a battle ensued.
>> Anonymous
>>309947

Interesting! Though are you sure you're not thinking of a different cat or bear species? The ranges of brown bears and jaguars don't overlap.