When: 2011
Coordinates: Ankara Zoo, Turkey
Crime Scene:
A tiger took advantage of the gap in the fence to sneak up on the next door neighbor's hot head brother, slapping the lion's neck vein, because it was not found by the staff at the first time, resulting in the lion's death on the spot. This incident was reported in BBC News, and we can clearly see that the tiger was the key to its failure to hit the lion, indicating that this tiger killing lion incident has a certain degree of accident.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > another tiger-lion killing incident</h1>
Coincidentally, another famous tiger killing incident also occurred in 2011
Coordinates: African Tiger Valley
A local flood, lions and tigers accidentally mixed together, the staff to separate them, anesthesia, did not expect that the lion has not yet awakened from the anesthetic, the tiger bit its throat, resulting in lion heavy bleeding, rescue ineffective death.
Two famous tiger killings of lions reflect a problem, the tiger is under external conditions, that is, after absolute superiority, a hit on the lifeblood of the lion, resulting in the lion being killed by the tiger. Although we understand the accident of tigers killing lions, what is the reason for the two unevenous species, tigers will kill lions? Let's explore the reasons behind the events!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > species geographical distribution analysis</h1>
Lion tigers are two species that do not violate the well water, and there is a high probability that they will not meet in the wild. Tigers belong to our Asian endemic species, and lions are distributed in Africa and Asia' India and other places, so India has both lion and tiger species? Don't they have a chance to fight! In fact, the two big cats do not have the same habitat in the wild environment, the tiger's protective color and flexible limbs determine that it is more suitable for the living conditions of the jungle, and the lion's coat color and slightly larger size make it more like to live in the vast grassland, so the two sides do not have a big fight for encroaching on the territory.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > combat behavior and capability analysis</h1>
Tigers live alone in the forest and are good at fighting alone, hunting an adult buffalo is not a problem, while lions usually live in groups on the prairie, with teams of female lions cooperating, and male lions enjoying their success. Tigers and lions seem to be better off, but in practice it's hard to say.
Comparison of lion-tiger combat effectiveness in the Turkish incident
The murderer is a Bengal tiger, the male Bengal tiger is 2.5-3.1 meters long and weighs 180-280 kg, and the male African lion is 2.6-3.2 meters long and weighs 200-300 kg.
However, the bone density of The Bengal tiger is 1.2% higher than that of the lion, which means that the tiger is stronger than the lion and is not easily bitten through in battle;
Moreover, its teeth are 1 cm more than the lion, and the bite force is 2 cm deeper than the lion, and it is this two cm that determines the decisive advantage of the lion and tiger fight. The most critical weapon of the Bengal tiger is the swing of the forelimbs, a grown man's swing is about 150kg, and the Bengal tiger has reached 2 tons, which is definitely unstoppable.
Someone once did an experiment, put the dynamometer into the ball, the big cat just used the force of playing with the ball of yarn to "touch" some, and measured nearly half a ton of data. In contrast, the tiger is indeed slightly better than the lion in terms of combat effectiveness, but a king of the forest, the king of a hundred beasts, is it that the tiger is idle and bored to provoke the lion, but after all, this is the first and second contest in the animal kingdom, and it is not cost-effective to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred? So what are the key points that we didn't analyze, and at the beginning we have a question, when did the lion become the ration of the tiger? Did the tiger's recipe change?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > recipes</h1>
Tigers have a much wider diet than lions, no less than a dozen herbivores alone, as well as crocodiles, bears and other large carnivores, while the grassland hot head brother recipe is much single, mainly for some large herbivores, food shortage season will also prey on the cubs of hippopotamus elephants. Does a wide range of recipes mean that lions become tiger rations? First of all, let's analyze the reasons for the wide diet of tigers, the forest as the habitat of tigers, the number of animals is quite a lot, but there are not many large animals, especially the density of ungulates is much smaller than the grassland, then the tiger wants to eat enough, it is bound to eat more animals, so it seems that the tiger is also helpless, in the long run, it has developed a habit: see animals to eat.
Analysis of this, everyone should have a bit of a clue, a hungry tiger, will it prey when you see a lion? Imagine if you are this big cat, there is no food source for several days in a row, in the face of survival challenges, even if there is a dinosaur in front of you, you may rush forward to fight, people in desperate places may burst out of unlimited potential, tigers do not stay, it also thinks that not fighting is starving to death, fighting there is still a chance to live. The truth of the tiger-and-lion incident is gradually becoming clear, but are you sure this is the final answer?
If you stay on the surface, the analysis results are hastily done, the article ends here, but Bao Ge wants to think a little more, the tiger that kills the lion is either in the zoo or in the wild base, which place is not good to eat and drink, there is no natural enemy, how can it be hungry to this extent?
Not only tigers, but also infighting and injuries among other animals in zoos and circuses are not uncommon. Humans and animals originally lived in their respective territories, not interfering with each other, but a small number of people found huge business opportunities, built zoos in the name of being close to animals, opened research institutes with the reason of studying species, and even more blatantly set up circuses with animal entertainment for humans.
Take the tiger valley incident, these years of hot discussion of the "tiger roaring Africa" project, the founder of the project claimed to save endangered tigers, in Africa to establish a wild tiger valley, covering an area of only 600,000 square meters, before and after the introduction of 4 tigers, and later breeding reached 26, to feed these tigers is far from enough, and the closed environment of tiger valley can not be regarded as a wild habitat? What is even more puzzling is that the founder of the project cooperates with a famous wildlife producer to train tigers to make money by filming, and they also hype the tourism and hotel catering industry in Tiger Valley, which are contrary to the original intention of the founders.
All of us overlook the question, animals belong to nature, not to humans, forcibly keeping them captive, domesticating them, entertaining them, and when you laugh and roll back and forth while watching animals perform in the circus, have you ever thought that this is basing your happiness on their pain? They are bound to be restless, they will expose their nature, this time it is the tiger killing the lion, and the next time it may be the tiger killing. Let go of these tigers, let go of these animals, you are letting go of human beings themselves!