This is the first episode of Animal Battle and I can already smell a lot of hype in the
air, because today we are going to decide which of our two candidates will lose and
which one will win and will have a chance to compete further for the title “The Best
Mammal in the World”.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to present you our two competitors:
the king of the African savanna – the Lion Versus
the ferocious Tiger.
Let’s do it!
I’m Mario and this is Animal Battle!
Doing some research for this video I was curious who would win in a battle one to one, so after
looking through a lot of fake videos, I mean A LOT and searching online and in books I
finally found the answer, but the winner of the Animal Battle isn’t necessarily the
strongest, because we are going to evaluate all of them based on 6 different characteristics:
Agility, Attack, Defense, Intelligence, Bonus skill and Survival.
So let’s start.
Lions and tigers are both some of the largest cat species and are both classified in the
genus Panthera.
They are pretty fast but can only run for a short amount of time.
Lions can reach speeds of up to 80 km/h when chasing their prey while tigers can run with
a speed of 49-65 km/h.
So it looks like an easy win for lions, but even though tigers aren’t as fast, they
win bonus points for the fact that they can jump up to 5-6 m in length and up to 2 m in
height and on top of all that tigers are very good swimmers so the tiger is the winner at
this compartment.
Now let’s talk about intelligence.
Being felids they are both pretty smart.
This is due to the fact that they are predators and hunting needs a higher level of intelligence,
but there isn’t any significant difference in their levels of intelligence, so it will
be a draw here.
Things get more interesting when we talk about their attack and defense stats.
And Oh boy, are these animals powerful.
First let’s talk about their size.
Male lions measure 260-350 cm, weighting 150-250 kg and females are smaller measuring 210-275
cm and weighting 120-182 kg.
Tigers range more in size from 250 to 390 cm in length for males and 200-275 cm for
females depending on the subspecies.
Also males can weight from 90 to 306 kg and females from 65 to 167 kg.
But mostly tigers are larger than lions and are significantly heavier which means that
they have denser muscle tissues and a lower center of gravity.
These characteristics would make tigers stronger in battles and we already know who would win
in a fight between the largest cats in the world.
Though the outcome of such a battle depends on the individuals: their history, fighting
style and physiology, in most cases these two animals were seen fighting the tiger would
win because tigers are more aggressive and they go for the throat.
But fights between them are very rare because they don’t share the same territories and
we should analyze how dominant are tigers and lions on their territories.
Both of them usually hunt large ungulates and are pretty successful at this.
They both have rivals.
Lions kill cheetahs and leopards when they have the chance but crocodiles near water
and large groups of wild dogs or hyenas can sometimes win them.
It is the same with tigers: they can kill leopards, wolves, dholes, bears, pythons and
crocodiles occasionally but sometimes they can lose to bears, crocodiles or large groups
of dholes.
Overall both lions and tigers have very good attack and defense stats but tigers are slightly
better at these.
So it looks like tigers have a little bit of advantage for now, but things are about
to change because we are going to talk about Bonus Skills.
Tigers, well, they have very good night vision 6 times better than humans’ night vision,
but the same applies to lions.
Also tigers have their special pattern of stripes which help for camouflage and is unique
for every individual, but that’s about it.
Lions on the other hand have a very powerful Bonus Skill: living and hunting in groups.
Their groups usually consist of 15 individuals, sometimes reaching even 30 of them.
Most of them are females, their cubs and one to 4 males which are the leaders of the group.
Hunting in groups is a very efficient technique so lions definitely deserve some points for
this.
And last, but not least let’s talk about Survival, because there is no point in having
high stats if the species is on the verge of extinction.
Well, at this compartment both of them are struggling.
Due to massive habitat loss over the past 100 years tigers have lost 93% of their historic
range.
Now there are just about 4000 individuals left in the wild, most of them living in India.
Tigers can live more than 20 years in the wild and usually give birth to two children
at once, but their population has a small recovering rate.
Lions can live up to 10-14 years and give birth to 2-4 children at once and there are
slightly more of them in the wild about 20 000 to 39 000, which is also 90% lower than
1 century ago.
So lions are doing slightly better here, but not really good.
People should stop deforestation and turning jungles and savannahs into farming lands for
preventing these two amazing animals from going extinct.
Looking at their stats we can observe that tigers are winning at Agility, Attack and
Defense, but lions are a lot better at Bonus Skill and slightly better at Survival.
In my opinion Tigers should be the winners because as individuals they are more mobile
and are stronger and are very good candidates for the title “The Best Mammal in the World”
but if you think that the fact that Lions live and hunt in groups is enough for them
to be the winners feel free to leave your opinions in the comments down below or vote
in the poll right there.
I will announce the winner at the beginning of the next episode of Animal Battle so subscribe
to M from aniMals not to miss it and go share this video with your friends, parents, siblings
and even show it to your babushka so that more people will be able to choose the winner.
Respect Animals.