Lion is the sole protector of the territory, lionesses and Cubs. Lion joins the hunt when the target is bigger and lionesses cannot bring down the target animal.
Indeed...it would be interesting to see the tigers prowess in the hunter vs hunter scene, there is many hype about the tigers hunting capability, I believe him a great hunter but there is a lacking of data that proves so. ike I stated previous, mad indian and sytr seem to be making up fabricated feats of tigers, anyone can find a picture of a tiger eating a dead carcass of a guar, doesnt mean they hunt them regularly, the same way you can find a photo of a lone lion with a dead carcass of a bull elephant, doesnt mean they slaughter elephants 1 on 1. Satyr and mad indian havent seena tiger hunt in the wild in their entire lives, but you know who has? These biologist:
Chitwan Dr. Sunqusit
page 98
..90% of tiger kills were found in riverine forest/grasslands..Most of the prey killed by tigers weigh 50-100 kg,
...In the absence of competitors a tiger can utilize each carcass, and thus there is no necessity to share
http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/zoology/pdf_hi/sctz-0336.pdf
. Karanth & Sunquist (1995) found that tiger usually selected prey weighing more than
176 kilograms
..Anamalai Tiger Reserve, southern India,
the average size of prey caught by tiger was 92 kilograms
..At Nagarahole chital, sambar and wild pig...Karanth & Sunquist (1995)
http://www.ecology.info/tiger-leopard.htm
Prey abundance and food habit of tigers (Panthera tigris tigris) in Pench National Park, Madhya Pradesh (2001)
..Chital (47.3%) along with sambar (14.5%) and wild pig Sus scrofa (10.9%)..The average weight of animals consumed by
tigers in the intensive study area was 82.1 kg.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.172.119
http://www.science.gov/topicpages/p/panthera+tigris+tigris.html
227 kg considered one of the heaviest and the average 200 kg is based on very small sample.
Journal of Zoology
Volume 286, Issue 3, pages 221–231, March 2012
Abstract
Tigers Panthera tigris continue to decline despite the best efforts of the worldwide scientific and conservation communities. Prey depletion has been linked to this decline, but a clear definition of what constitutes preferred prey and preferred prey weight range does not exist. This is critical information if we are to assess tiger reintroduction potential, monitor unforeseen poaching of predators and prey, and successfully conserve the species. Here we reviewed the available literature on tiger diet and prey availability and calculated Jacobs's electivity index scores from
3187 kills or scats of 32 prey species. We found that wild boar and sambar deer are significantly preferred by tigers, with red deer and barasingha likely to be significantly preferred also with a larger sample size. Prey body mass was the only variable that related to tiger prey preference with species weighing between
60 and 250 kg preferred by tigers yielding a ratio of predator to preferred prey of 1:1, which is similar to other solitary felids. This information can be used to predict tiger diet, carrying capacity and movement patterns, as it has been for Africa's large predator guild, and has important implications for tiger conservation throughout its distribution.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...maintenance.++Apologies+for+the+inconvenience.
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232957224_Prey_preferences_of_the_tiger
1 x 1 ratio when available which is similar to other solitary felids. Lions are 2 x 3 times their own body weight, Lionesess up to 300 kg.
Dr. Packer
..The savannas are the most heterogeneous of felid habitats; lions also live at higher densities than other big cats and
thus face the most intense competition for good habitat.
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/research/labs/lionresearch/research/group-living
..Lionesses generally prey on ungulates, comfortably taking down those sized between 50-300 kg.
..But male lions are also very good hunters,..They also take more risks in hunting and occasionally prey on much larger
animals. They can fiercely take down bull buffaloes, giraffes and even hippo.
http://globalsojourns.com/imagedump/Web_Articles/Articles_All_Africa/African_Lion.pdf
Lioness hunt large prey than male tigers on average. Male lions target much larger prey than male tigers.
..However, the individual body mass and the edible biomass of ungulate prey are both variable and complex factors for lions (Schaller, 1972 ; van Orsdol, 1984 ), as with tigers (Karantet al., 2004 ). The body masses of individual prey taken by lions are 3 – 1, 600 kg and, eve n re- stricted to preferred prey, the range is 190 – 550 kg (Hayward & Kerley, 2005 )
..Karanth et al. ( 2004 ) assumed b 5 1 . 0 for tigers (i.e. all prey are potentially eaten) but their field data later placed b closer to 0. 514 ( 0 .001 – 1 . 009 ).
..Hunter (1998) recorded virtually all medium-to large bodied prey consumed by lions over 40 months
..The different scaling factors of tigers and lions could reflect differences between solitary and group hunting. we hesitate to recommend further research, given the utility of the empirical model (Eq. 3 ).
http://journals.cambridge.org/actio...e=online&aid=3505612&fileId=S003060530700124X
http://faculty.nelson.wisc.edu/treves/pubs/2009_lions_Treves-et-al.pdf
32–632 kg for lion Panthera leo
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4079238/
..Lions elsewhere can – opportunistically – kill Cape buffalo Syncerus caffer* (weighing c. 1000 kg) and sometimes hippo Hippopotamus amphibius (c. 1500-3500 kg).
..Though note that some lion populations are specialist buffalo-killers. In Tanzania’s Lake Manyara National Park, George Schaller (1972) reported that an amazing 62% of all lion prey was made up of Cape buffalo, with 81% of this 62% being adult male buffalo
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/02/04/lions-as-macropredators/
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3377/004.044.0104
Dr. Schaller
page 209
..adult hippopotami are occasionally killed in Gorgogonza Park (R.Park)..solitary lions tend to prey on herbivores weighing between 50-300 kg..Adult buffalo, some 425 to 850 kg in weight, may be attacked by solitary lions...
https://books.google.com/books?hl=e...51wllbGBv1WxsNYwpH1HqNAqI#v=onepage&q&f=false
..Data were collected on species killed by lions Panthera leo in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe between 1998 and 2004. Lions killed predominantly large to medium-sized herbivores, concentrating on buffalo Syncerus caffer, elephant Loxodonta africana, giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis, wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus and zebra Equus burchelli.
These species made up 83% of all lion kills found and 94% of the biomass of kills actually observed. Elephant calves made up an unusually large proportion of lion prey during the study period (23% of kills recorded). All elephants killed were dependent juveniles
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...nticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=
..Prey:
Elk, wild boar and sika deer, and roe deer make up about 80-90% of tiger prey across tiger range,
http://www.wcsrussia.org/en-us/wildlife/amurtigers/ecology.aspx
Amur tigers predate on larger prey (elk) than Bengal tigers on average. 4 or 5 large Bengal tigers does not represent the whole.
Dr. Packer
..lion predation remains a significant mortality factor for subadults and even for adults (e.g. Hirst, 1969; Pienaar, 1969), which weigh 800–1200 kg (Owen-Smith, 1988) and reach heights of up to 4.5–5.5 m for females and males, respectively (Dagg & Foster, 1982; Pellew, 1983 a )
..Lions are a clear threat to giraffes. Observational studies indicate that giraffes alter their behavior in the presence of lions
..Although solitary lions can attack adult giraffes (Pienaar, 1969), groups of lions are more successful at bringing down large prey (Schaller, 1972)
..The giraffe is an important food source for lions in some regions, including Kruger National Park, South Africa (Pienaar, 1969; Owen-Smith & Mills, 2008) and Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe (Loveridge et al ., 2006). Where giraffes are a large component of the lion’s diet, we might expect even higher claw-mark prevalence than observed in Serengeti..
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2012.00972.x/pdf
.. male lions are in fact considerably more effective and successful predators when it comes to targeting the largest prey—namely elephants and buffalo..
.. it has been demonstrated that male lions have the capability of overpowering a young elephant even when hunting alone [19,23]. Older elephant matriarchs should be more experienced in facing lion encounters than younger matriarchs
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/278/1722/3270
Predator–prey size relationships in an African large-mammal food web
....Studies elsewhere show buffalo to be numerically the predominant prey of lion in Chobe National Park in Botswana (Viljoen 1993), Kafue National Park in Zambia (Mitchell et al. 1965) and Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania (Schaller 1972). Hayward & Kerley (2005) found that lion selected
prey species preferentially within a mass range of 190–550 kg, but made no adjustment for the under-recording of smaller prey species.
Over half of the giraffe and two-thirds of the buffalo killed by lion were adult animals in the Mala Mala Reserve adjoining Kruger (Radloff & du Toit 2004).
A substantial fraction of the adult buffalo falling prey to lions are killed by male lions hunting independently of female prides (Funston et al. 1998, 2001; Radloff & du Toit 2004). In northern Botswana, lions hunting in groups of around
10 killed young elephants weighing up to 2500 kg in body mass, more than 10 times the mass of a male lion (Joubert 2006).
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01314.x/full
Effects of Predator-prey Body Size Ratios on the Stability of Food Chains.
. the relationship between the predator-prey body mass ratio and the trophic position of the predator, that is, how fast this ratio decreases with increasing trophic height.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9735269
..This is a large difference in comparison with East and South Africa, where lions fed on 65% large prey and 35% medium sized prey (Bauer, 2008). Bauer (2008) stated that the difference between lions from different parts of Africa may not be caused by differences in prey preferences, but by differences in availability.
http://www.leofoundation.org/downloads/VISSER~1.pdf
Tigers preffer animals in the 200-400 pound range as their base food source, while lions in the 600-1,200 pound range, as their base....again, like the previous link on the other post, lions can kill bull giraffe and bull giant eland all on their own, even subadults do. Both can reach 4,000 pounds.
Again, biologist observations for 20+ years >>>>>> tiger fans who has never seen a wild tiger in their life.
lions don't exist in SEA or China and Chinese Vietnamese and Indians all have unanimous opinion that lions won against the tigers? What an idiot.
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