When they met, the tiger severed the lion’s jugular vein in just one stroke. The tiger apparently found a gap in the fence, and made its way into the lion’s enclosure. It did, and the Gaekwad lost 37,000 rupees.Īnd in 2011, a tiger killed a lion with a single paw swipe in a run in at Ankara Zoo in Turkey. Before the fight began, those running the bettor set the odds at 1 to 37,000 that the tiger would win. And in the late 1800′s, the Gaekwad of Baroda, an Indian ruler, arranged a fight between the two beasts. He told them that “back in the day of the Roman Coliseum, the smart money usually backed the tiger.” While we don’t have any great descriptions of the outcomes, ancient paintings of the event usually showed the tiger winning. In 1959, a reader asked the Spokesman-Reviewthis question, and the paper, in turn, asked William Bridges, the curator of publications at the Bronx Zoo. In ancient Rome, the tiger-lion face-off wasn’t uncommon. So it seems that the tiger would have a physical advantage over the lion.īut it turns out that we have some historical data to add to this conjecture, too. You might remember from high school health class that muscle weighs more than fat, which helps explain the tiger’s extra pounds.

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