I have to keep them from killing the tigers.
Dave Hoover, the animal trainer for Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus, mentions that he lost many tigers to male lions: "I have to keep the male lions from killing each other. Saffoe added that the most interesting match-up in his opinion might be between good-sized Bengal tigers and male jaguars, as both had roughly the same speed, temperament, size and strength. He also reckoned that in a fight, the biggest cats - tigers, jaguars and lions - would come out on top against the likes of cougars, snow leopards, leopards, and cheetahs. Craig Saffoe, a biologist and the curator of great cats at the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., said that the outcome of a given fight totally depended on the individuals, with their fighting style, physiology and history, but that he would bet on the tiger winning. There are differing scenarios regarding whether tigers would beat lions in fights, or vice-versa: Favoring the tiger In general, the lion is a social animal, while the tiger is solitary, though at times, male lions are separate from the females, and tigers socialise, usually for mating, and rarely for hunts. The most common reported circumstance of their meeting is in captivity, either deliberately or by accident. In the past, lions and tigers reportedly competed in the wilderness, where their ranges overlapped in Eurasia. Historically, a comparison of the tiger ( Panthera tigris) versus the lion ( Panthera leo) has been a popular topic of discussion by hunters, naturalists, artists and poets, and has inspired the popular imagination.
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