A tiger will defeat a lion

Mortality rates"In Khana National Park 25% of tiger deaths are from other tigers and only 5.5% of lion deaths are from other lions."This doesn't actually show anything, more evidence is required to make any accurate conclusions from this, from this you could conclude that tigers fight with each other more than lions or you could conclude that lions are better adapted for the reasons I showed last time. More evidence is required and this statistic alone is next to meaningless. Also this statistic is probably offset by male lions being the only ones fighting and both male and female tigers fighting. Actually if we were going to compare the rates of death from fighting as a percentage of those who fight you would come up with 25% of tigers and 11% of lions there is still a significant difference but not as much. Furthermore I question the reliability of the results from Khana National Park as it is a semi controlled environment and thus not entirely the same conditions as a wild one.BluffingA bluff requires that the threat be existent otherwise the bluff will be called. This kind of mutually assured destruction is at the core of a bluff. As you said "a fight usually hurts both the attacker and defender", this is not the same with tigers as they are not as adapted to fighting.A lion is a social organism unlike a tiger. Lions have a social hierarchy in which the lion at the top gets the most mates and therefore passes on more of its genes, this hierarchy is based on the best fighter being at the top. If a tiger was more adapted to fighting other tigers there would be more reluctance.Lions "terrible fighting style"You claim "A lion must stand on three legs an maul with the fourth." this is simply not true [1] [2]. Furthermore I am not convinced of the truth of your claim "The tiger's fighting style not only theoretically doubles the number of swipes, it ... increases the force" I don't see why biped fighting provides more force than quadrupedal fighting, in physics force is defined as mass multiplied by acceleration. In a situation where both creatures are fighting bipedally the mass would remain the same and only the acceleration could differ and I am not convinced it would. In a situation where one creature was fighting bipedally and another was fighting quadrupedally the one fighting bipedally could use its entire mass to hit both paws down on the head of the the quadrupedal fighter increasing the mass but decreasing the acceleration an easy way to test this is to punch something with one hand and then fall hand first onto the same object it should have a similar effect (depending on weight and strength) as both a lion and a tiger are stronger than a human for their weight.So a lion is perfectly capable of fighting bipedally and while bipedal fighting does have some advantages they come in the form of an increased number of views not increased power. Number of People Taken to Control the Animal"I may add that five men can easily hold down a lion, while it requires nine men to control a tiger."One well trained man can single handedly control a crocodile [3] but one man can't control a basking shark, does that mean the basking shark (that would only hurt a person if it accidentally swallowed them)?StrengthAs I have already said the tiger has an advantage on paper, just as the soviets had an advantage on paper in the Afghan war.[1] http://www.turtlehurtled.com... [2] http://the-syrian.com...;[3] http://everything2.com...;