Tigers and lions are the two largest cats in the world, they are similar in size, similar in food, and also have the title of "king of the hundred beasts", so people have always been interested in which lion or tiger is stronger.
Theoretical analysis, zoos, circuses in the lion and tiger fight ending, after all, is difficult to convince the public, so people think of India, because India is the only country in the world with wild Asiatic lions and Bengal tigers, referring to the Siberian tigers and wolves in the Russian Far East, will fight, so in India, wild tigers will fight with lions?
India is a tiger country, with the largest number of wild tigers in the world, about 3,000, the local people have a very strong affection for tigers, so every year India will allocate a lot of money to protect tigers.
However, although India has a large number of tigers, there is only one species, that is, the Bengal tiger, although the Indochinese tiger looks like a tiger living in India from the name, but in fact they are not distributed in India, mainly living in Myanmar, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries.
The Bengal tiger is widely distributed in India, and tigers live in most parts of the country. How wide is it? Put it this way, there are about 114 national parks in India, of which tigers are distributed, accounting for 50.
Although India's tigers are widely distributed, coincidentally, there is not a single tiger in Gujarat, where the Asiatic lion is located, let alone the Gil Forest Reserve.
In fact, before the 1990s, there were still wild tigers in Gujarat, for example, in 1989, tigers were found in Dangs County, Gujarat, and the number of tigers in the whole state was estimated to be around 13.
By 1992, when India re-surveyed tigers, they were not found in Gujarat, indicating that tigers in the state were extinct.
The most recent tiger spot in Gujarat was in February 2019, when a tiger entered Gujarat along an ecological corridor from no known source, possibly Madhya Pradesh, because before that, a tiger in a forest reserve near Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, was missing.
But it also did not go to the Gil Forest, and the closest distance to the Gil Forest is more than 500 kilometers.
Asiatic lions used to live in much of India, but after the 1870s, due to the killing of European colonists and locals, a large number of Asiatic lions were killed, and the population declined sharply, and by the beginning of the 20th century, the entire species became very rare.
In 1907, it was assessed that the number of wild Asiatic lions was only 13. In order to save the endangered Asiatic lion, India captured all 13 remaining Asiatic lions in 1908 and raised them in captivity, and in 1965 established the Gil Forest Reserve, which placed the Asiatic lion in the Gil Forest National Park for conservation.
In 2020, India conducted a census of Asiatic lions, the census result is 674, although the number of Asiatic lions has risen, they are still only distributed in the Gil Forest, and nothing else.
Therefore, although India has both wild lions and tigers, due to its geographical distribution, they do not even have the opportunity to meet, and naturally they cannot fight.
In fact, not to mention the inability to meet, even if tigers and lions lived in the same area as in the early Holocene, they did not fight much because their needs for the environment were different.
Simply put, lions like open areas, the prey resources in the forest area cannot carry the lion group, and the environment in the forest area cannot play the advantage of the lion group hunting, so the lion will not set foot in the forest area.
Tigers, on the other hand, are solitary cats that hunt in ambushes and prefer to shelter densely forested areas and are unable to survive in open areas. In general, both tigers and lions occupy territory in their favor, and the well water on both sides does not violate the river water and hardly fights.