What Happens When Lions And Tigers Meet In The Wild?
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It would be very unusual for a lion and tiger to meet in the wild today. Tigers are found only in Asia, whilst the vast majority of lions are found in Africa. There is a small population of Asiatic lions in the Gir Forest of India, but tigers are not found in this area. However, historically the Asiatic subspecies of lion had a much greater range, which overlapped with that of the tiger. These animals would have done their best to avoid each other – a confrontation would not have been good for either. Had they happened to meet accidentally, the most likely outcome is that one would have left the vicinity in a hurry. Fights would have occurred from time to time, of course, but these would usually have been brief, with one animal backing down before either was badly hurt. They would probably have killed each other’s cubs when they could in order to reduce the competition for themselves, just as both will kill the cubs of leopards and other predators.
In response to peejay’s answer, I’d just like to point out that it is only the offspring of a male lion and female tiger that are called ligers. The offspring of a male tiger and female lion are called tigons.
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Before mankind started to exterminate them,both lions AND tigers used to live all over India and other countries too. A few lions still exist in India. So they could possibly have met, but only in the past.
Lions tend to prefer more open country, while tigers like wooded areas, so they would rarely have met, even in India.
Big cats tend to avoid each other anyhow ie leopards stay well away from lions in Africa.
In captivity, lions will actually mate with tigers, producing offspring called ‘ligers’. These hybrids can be huge ! Almost twice the size of a tiger ie 1000 lbs in weight. Look up liger on the web.
Yes, there are tigons too, but ligers seem to get all the publicity because they can be so huge !
In this day and age, the two species do not occur in the same place. Therefore they would not run across one another in the wild.
In the past there was a species of Lion, very similar to the African one, living in India where there is a Tiger population.
No one could say what exactly would happen if the two species met in the past. It would not very likely happen under normal circumstances because predators of this size have a large range and don’t usually come across others.
Like the other person said, it would be hard for them to actually meet in the wild, giving that they live on different continents. But, if they somehow did or were forced to be introduced by a human, they would probably see a threat to themselves, their territory, or their kin and attack.
I don’t think the two species inhabit the same areas. Lions live in Africa, Tigers in India and the Far East, and few other places.
they live on different continents, lions Africa, tigers Bengal tigers India,Siberian tiger far east Amur region eastern Russia,Sumatran Tigers Indonesia SouthChina tigers South China(critically endangered)&the IndoChina tigers Vietnam
They live in different continents now.
However they are related – despite being labelled as different species they can interbreed, producing ligers and tions.http://creationontheweb.com/content/view…
They don’t. The only place it might happen would be India’s Gir Forest, but tigers aren’t known to live there.
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