Lions and tigers are the top beasts of prey in the world today, and both belong to the feline family; Cats, ranging from kittens of one or two kilograms to tiger lions, which weigh more than 300 kilograms at the maximum, are also one of the wonders in the history of animal evolution. And the evolutionary history of tigers and lions is almost in sync with the history of human beings on Earth; It was basically after the demise of more ferocious monsters such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex and saber-toothed tiger that gradually dominated the land. Early humans obviously could not deal with first-class beasts such as lions and tigers with simple stone tools and wooden sticks alone. Therefore, many prehistoric people in different places around the world have similar legends about the "flood beast". This shows that the beasts of prey, including lions and tigers, once seriously threatened the survival and development trajectory of ancient humans. It was not until the metal age, the javelin and bow and arrow and other long-range weapons of mass destruction were widely equipped, and humans began to understand collective hunting, that the threat of lions and tigers to humans began to decline across the board. This has basically entered the era of modern Homo sapiens.
It is equivalent to saying that humans and lions and tigers are also the top of the earth's terrestrial creatures, and the two sides have gained an overall advantage for the first time in nearly 3 million years of fierce competition. Another consequence of this advantage; It is that the living territory of lions and tigers is greatly compressed. From almost everywhere in the past, gradually retreating into the depths of grasslands and forests. But before entering the modern industrial society. The threat of lions and tigers to humans remains widespread. Because individual humans, whether they have metal instruments in their hands or not, it is difficult to gain the upper hand alone in the fight with lions and tigers. As for the legend of killing a tiger with his bare hands like Wu Song, it is absolutely absent in the history of the world for thousands of years, and even if it does, then its probability is estimated to be less than one in 1 billion. This probability is actually too low to have much practical significance. So until the 1970s, naturally occurring lions and tigers hurting people were still occurring with high frequency around the world, and it wasn't until the last 50 years that such incidents finally became very rare.
And human beings for things that are stronger than themselves, or things that are difficult to control by human beings, often develop into some worship psychology. So lions and tigers have been much stronger than individual humans in the last 3 million years, 99.99% of the time period; As a result, people in almost all regions developed a certain realistic worship of lions and tigers. For example, the lion and tiger are used to describe individual or collective combat units in a crowd that are particularly waiting to fight. Therefore, since ancient times, there have been tiger generals, tiger brigades, lion legions and so on. The image of the tiger and the lion also appears on the national HUI or military HUI of some countries with high frequency. The probability of appearance is almost the same as the proportion of hui in the hui country that takes the image of the eagle as a military. Including the historical British Empire, there are as many as 37 national JIA with lion images on the hui. The British region, which is located in the northern temperate zone and is an island country on the Atlantic Ocean, does not have naturally growing lions. However, later the colonial expansion of the British penetrated deep into the origin of the lion, resulting in the eventual self-belief that he was like a male lion on the earth.
The "high-end" ethnic group is gone. Lions are mostly native to Africa, and outside of Africa only the South Asian subcontinent has historically distributed natural lion populations. While tigers mainly grow naturally throughout Asia, Africa and Europe have historically had no tigers; The Americas, though there are jaguars, are more like leopards than real tigers. Therefore, the only areas that have historically distributed lions and tigers at the same time are the South Asian subcontinent. So here is an idea: since tigers and lions are the kings of the hundred beasts, they are also the best of the beasts. So which of these two is more powerful? If it were not for the comparison of the Guan Gong Zhan Qin Qiong, the place with the highest probability of natural PK between the two possibilities would occur, of course, the South Asian subcontinent. But there's a problem. Due to the relatively low latitude of the South Asian subcontinent, its native Asiatic lion and South Asian tiger, that is, the Bengal tiger, are always "small" in the type of lion tiger on the earth, and PK seems to be not addictive. If you want to fight at the top, then you should use the world's largest African lion and the world's largest tiger;
That is to say, the Siberian tiger or Siberian tiger is the most convincing to fight the largest male lion in Africa. In general, the lethality of a beast is directly proportional to its weight and size. The largest Siberian tiger measured by humans in history weighs as much as 318 kilograms, that is, more than 630 kilograms, not counting the tail body length of nearly 3.5 meters; it is indeed a big insect! The largest lion ever measured by humans is the South African male lion, not counting the tail body length of more than 3 meters, but the weight is about 350 kg. That is, the largest male lion may be slightly shorter than the largest tiger, but the weight is not lost. Perhaps because the upper limbs and upper body of the male lion are more muscular, presenting a robust shape of an overall inverted triangle; The tiger's limbs and body muscles are more balanced. So what will be the result of the live fight between the two? I'm afraid it's hard for modern people to see. After all, using large beasts to duel each other on the spot is still a hobby of the Colosseum era. Needless to say that the biggest lions and tigers are difficult to find in contemporary times.
Even if the two can be put together, they are also animals that are highly protected by international conventions. Moreover, even captive lions and tigers are not cheap, one is worth millions of dollars, and who in contemporary times would be willing to let the two fight in person? So never know which of the two is stronger? In fact, there are already answers! In the early 1970s, in the zoo in the city where hanhai wolf mountain (Xiongnu wolf mountain) is located, there was an African male lion and a male Siberian tiger side by side. The big cages of the two have been next to each other. One spring night, it is not known whether it was the negligence of the breeders or the isolation net in the middle that fell into disrepair; The Siberian tiger actually jumped to the side of the African lion. The result was an immediate earth-shattering roar. Ten minutes later, the zoo staff arrived and found that the left front leg of the Siberian tiger had been bitten off by the African lion! African lions have only some skin wounds. This is a real event. The answer to who is stronger is very clear!