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Ok, so the Lion and Tiger's respective profiles, it's been estabilished for some reason that the Tiger is generally stronger. However, I don't think that it's always the case.
I am not here to argue that the Lion wins either, but simply that both of them should be treated as comparable to each other with no clear winner.
Reason why, it's because the main article used for this is the Wikipedia page about Tiger vs Lions, which however was deleted due to it being mostly just a list of opinions and biased views than actual objective stances (and you can see some of the sources in the description of this video, which describes well why Lion vs Tiger is a pretty subjective topic with no real answer, by the way), other than the Wikia page itself apparently even interpreting in a wrong way some of said sources.
The second is this page, which however falls still in the issue I've mentioned above, and the stuff it says is also pretty questionable.
Edit: I've listed here all the records of tiger and lion fights that I could find around. These should be a fine reference to use, after we choose which to use and which to not.
I am not here to argue that the Lion wins either, but simply that both of them should be treated as comparable to each other with no clear winner.
Reason why, it's because the main article used for this is the Wikipedia page about Tiger vs Lions, which however was deleted due to it being mostly just a list of opinions and biased views than actual objective stances (and you can see some of the sources in the description of this video, which describes well why Lion vs Tiger is a pretty subjective topic with no real answer, by the way), other than the Wikia page itself apparently even interpreting in a wrong way some of said sources.
The second is this page, which however falls still in the issue I've mentioned above, and the stuff it says is also pretty questionable.
- Size: The problem here is that the page assumed Lions are always lighter than Tigers, while it just isn't always the case, as while Tigers have the peak weight, Lions have the minimal, and thus on the average, lions are 177.5 Kg, and tigers instead are 173.5 Kg. Not to mention that lions and other animals do deal with hunting and killing stuff that's larger than them, so that's not exactly a factor anyway.
- Paintings: Many artists aren't biologists, most of the paintings were simply propaganda as well, and we got other pictures of lions besting tigers (here, here and here as examples).
- Instances of tigers killing lions: As already said, there's never a real winner in these fights, if you wanna take examples of tigers beating lions, I can do the same for the opposite, as for every instance of a party beating the other, there's always the opposite in equal measure.
Edit: I've listed here all the records of tiger and lion fights that I could find around. These should be a fine reference to use, after we choose which to use and which to not.
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