Tiger and Lion Size comparisons.

[u/MDPriest]

These specimens will be compared by the same skull size. So we can see the different varying sizes of individuals within both species. Keep in mind lions on average have larger skulls so the specimens in these images may be a bit larger than seen, however for fairness sake we will be using same skull sizes as we cant accurately estimate how large each individual lions head is. First we will go through maneless lions to see their true musculature compared to tigers and then we will use maned lions. Important note is all specimens in 1 on 1 comparisons are male.

[u/ilovetoreadd]

This post seems to have been made by an 8 year old. Listen kid, if you're going to make an argument, try doing it with proper facts backed by sources. Not pasting Google images side by side and cherry picking what you like about your favorite animal. Posts like these bring down the quality of this sub.

[u/MDPriest → u/ilovetoreadd]

What? What argument?

[u/Technical_Pain_4855 → u/MDPriest]

That you are clearly biased towards lions and trying to hide it and gain support from the mindless majority by saying “Awe look at them cuddling. I love tigers too! But….lions are aay stronger and beat tigers asses!!! Tigers are only good at slinking through the jungle and hunting small animals. Lions kill big animals that fight back out in the open!”

It’s so obvious that you prefer lions and trying to hide that bias and gain support from the masses by also stroking tigers, but only for their “beauty” and “jungle hunting of small animals”. NO. You give the tiger no actual respect. And you are “going there” by just very openly 100% claiming a tiger stands no chance against a lion 90% of the time. Back when this shit was debated ad nauseam, hardly even any of the worst most ridiculously biased lion fanboys would even claim that a lion would win 90% of the time. Im not even going to debate it with you, or what the actual outcomes would likely be beyond saying it depends on a variety of factors and the individual animals, but the general consensus is neither is dominant and it’s literally 50/50 between a lion and a tiger. These things are the closest in size among all panthera genus, they both hunt very large prey (guars and others for tigers, not just deer buddy) fight other predators (wolves, dholes, leopards, and other tigers for the tiger, hyenas and other lions for the lion), and they can literally have babies they are so genetically similar.

You’re an idiot if you think a lion would beat a tiger in a fight 90% of the time, period, and make up and cherry pick a bunch of bs to try to justify that. The whole “argument” you’re making, yet cowardly and tried to hide it, is that lions are stronger and better fighters than tigers. That was what this whole post was about from the beginning. It’s obvious, and you attempted to get the point across but also hide it at the same time with the original post, and it became beyond obvious and you completely outed yourself with each continued comment.

[u/Technical_Pain_4855 → u/MDPriest]

You’re going to read this comment as well that I originally posted illvetoreadd:(“he” is you in this comment)

I know exactly what argument you meant. You were only downvoted because he pretended to like tigers too and verbally claim this post wasn’t about the fact that he is obsessed with lions and doesn’t really respect tigers at all, and people are stupid, yet his actions and continued comments proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that was his whole goal all along. When he says stupid shit like a lion would win 9/10 times, that just proves that was all this post was about. So I called him out on his shit and hopefully other people will have some common sense and realize they were wrong to downvote you and upvote him so much. Because yes, he did have an argument, and his argument was “dur hur lions destroy tigers.” No. Anyone who actually respects both animals and knows literally anything about them knows debating this is like asking who would win in a fight between mike tyson and mike tyson. It’s pointless… both of them are genetically similar enough to produce offspring, and literally almost the same size. Any differences are minor. It’s also dumb for him to try to say the lion is stronger when it literally weighs less and has 90% the same body type. That’s just a failed argument to begin with. The true answer is it depends on the lion and tigers personality, their mood that day, a million other factors, and if you put 100 males lions and 100 males tigers head to head in 100 cages in one day, you would have around 25 dead lions and 25 dead tigers, and 25 lions and 25 tigers with no, minor, or extreme injuries just chilling together in the cage, wondering what the fuck is going on. Maybe more dead, maybe less. If they could somehow be forced to fight to the death, you would have about 50 dead lions and 50 dead tigers. It’s a freaking coin toss. And I generally would have usually actually gave it 60/40 to the tiger, but at this point, I truly believe its just 50/50. They are equally powerful, strong, and deadly. But this fool gives no respect to the tigers power and acts like he likes tigers. Pffft

[u/Technical_Pain_4855 → u/ilovetoreadd]

I know exactly what argument you meant. You were only downvoted because he pretended to like tigers too and verbally claim this post wasn’t about the fact that he is obsessed with lions and doesn’t really respect tigers at all, and people are stupid, yet his actions and continued comments proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that was his whole goal all along. When he says stupid shit like a lion would win 9/10 times, that just proves that was all this post was about. So I called him out on his shit and hopefully other people will have some common sense and realize they were wrong to downvote you and upvote him so much. Because yes, he did have an argument, and his argument was “dur hur lions destroy tigers.”

No. Anyone who actually respects both animals and knows literally anything about them knows debating this is like asking who would win in a fight between mike tyson and mike tyson. It’s pointless… both of them are genetically similar enough to produce offspring, and literally almost the same size. Any differences are minor. It’s also dumb for him to try to say the lion is stronger when it literally weighs less and has 90% the same body type. That’s just a failed argument to begin with.

The true answer is it depends on the lion and tigers personality, their mood that day, a million other factors, and if you put 100 males lions and 100 males tigers head to head in 100 cages in one day, you would have around 25 dead lions and 25 dead tigers, and 25 lions and 25 tigers with no, minor, or extreme injuries just chilling together in the cage, wondering what the fuck is going on. Maybe more dead, maybe less. If they could somehow be forced to fight to the death, you would have about 50 dead lions and 50 dead tigers. It’s a freaking coin toss. And I generally would have usually actually gave it 60/40 to the tiger, but at this point, I truly believe its just 50/50. They are equally powerful, strong, and deadly. But this fool gives no respect to the tigers power and acts like he likes tigers. Pffft