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Sure I'd rather face off against one lion than one tiger, but with lions it's not gonna be just one.

I asked my house cat. He said he can beat them both.

Lions regularly fight other big cats, mostly lions. Tigers do not. My money is on Leo.
- Also lions pack hunt and will organize for defense purposes. Tigers stay solitary unless they are mating, usually.

Lions fights other cats in their pride. How often do Tigers even run into another tiger? So experience goes to the lion.
Tigers kill by grabbing the throat with their teeth and letting the prey suffocate. Lion has a big wirey mane around his neck - something evolution gave him for... Fighting other big cats.
Yes the tiger is bigger, but the lion has the tools and experience to overcome that small size difference.
- How often do Tigers even run into another tiger?
  All the time. While tigers lead solitary lifestyles, they're not devoid of socialization. Territories overlap and lead to peaceful interactions and conflicts over borders. Sometimes they even cooperate in hunting or live together, though that's less frequent. The nature of their interactions is mostly dictated by sexual relations and the ratio of tigers to prey.
  This is not meant to contribute to the tiger vs lion issue.
  I also think it's interesting to note that while the mane serves a practical purpose, it's also wildly oversized as a result of sexual selection.
  
  Sweet baby cheesus I love me some mane. Ooh, yeah, baby girl, wear that mane!
  I may be confused.
- Menagerie in Turin (1830): A tiger attacked a lion but was overpowered. The lion pinned the tiger, held its throat, and eventually killed it by clawing its abdomen open[2].
  Circus in Verona (1808): A tiger attacked first but ultimately yielded to the stronger lion during a fight observed at a circus[2].
  Clyde Beatty's Records: The famous animal trainer claimed that his lions consistently defeated tigers during live performances, with one lion named Sultan reportedly beating every tiger it faced[5].
  Citations: [1] Lions vs Tigers - 5 Key Differences (And Who Would Win in a Fight) https://a-z-animals.com/animals/comparison/lion-vs-tiger/ [2] LION VS TIGER - 16 Real fighting cases - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSqLgk6plG0 [3] Siberian Tiger In The Battle With One Blow Struck The Lion On The ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLU9MXP_63I [4] Lion vs Tiger fight. | Talk Tennis http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php [5] The lion vs tiger debate may not be as clear as it seems - Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/5zle87/the_lion_vs_tiger_debate_may_not_be_as_clear_as/ [6] Real Fights Between Lion and Tiger. Clash of the Titans !!! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr5SWY1Ad3Q [7] 30 Crazy Moments Tigers and Lions Fight to See Who's the Real King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqLffDjkPN4 [8] Tiger vs Lion: This debate is wack | VS Battles Wiki Forum https://vsbattles.com/threads/tiger-vs-lion-this-debate-is-wack.166220/
- Oh Tigers also kill by ripping and shredding when the occasion calls for it...

does NOT even live in the jungle
Fwiw, that's definitely not a requirement. The King of Australia doesn't live in Australia, either.
- Well he ain’t my king.
  
  I didn't vote for him!
  
  our government says differently
  so does our leader
  same as the mobsters in blue
  he IS your king. you'd do well not to forget it.
  edit: i feel like this came across mean, i just mean it in a radical 'let's fucking kill the powerful' typa tone. :3
  
  Well may we say "God save the Queen", because nothing will save the Governor-General!
  
  Unfortunately, yes he is.
- Also, jungles' original meaning is just "uninhibited." So vast plains counted, too.
  
  Jungle
  1776, "dense growth of trees and other tangled vegetation," such as that of some regions in India, from Hindi jangal "desert, forest, wasteland, uncultivated ground," from Sanskrit jangala-s "arid, sparsely grown with trees," a word of unknown origin.
  Source: Etymonline
  I can't tell if you meant to say "uninhibitated" or "uninhabited." I get the impression you meant the latter, which would be in line with the idea of "desert" or "wasteland."
  Either way, the history of the word jungle reveals that its root might have applied to what we'd call today a savanna, which is where lions live. So, the title "King of the Jungle" could have made sense for lions at some point.
  
  So Northern Canada is the Jungles?
- What about that Plantagenet dude?
  According to Baldrick he lives in Australia and is no less legitimate a claim to be king of england than any of those bastards since Dick III. The fact that he hasn't raised an army and started any wars suggests he might be less of a dick than most of them.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%27s_Real_Monarch
  Oh - looks like he died, but maybe his offsping.
- That's why 'von und zu' exists in German. 'von' means 'of House...', and 'zu' basically means 'resides in ...'. So King von und zu Luxemburg would be King of house Luxemburg who also lives in Luxemburg
  
  Interesting. So can someone be "von" multiple places? Charles von Australia und United Kingdom und Canada und New Zealand zu United Kingdom?
  
  Incidentally, in German the lion also isn't called king of the jungle, but king of the animals. But I don't know if that means von animals or zu animals 🤔.
- Okay, this made me look up if Australia is still a commonwealth. It is, but who the fuck knew India still was? I'm not the only one who didn't know, right?
  
  fwiw the word "commonwealth" is...essentially meaningless. If you hear someone say commonwealth on its own, they're probably talking about the Commonwealth of Nations as @scholar@lemmy.world described. The Commonwealth of Nations is basically a loose grouping of countries that do various things together. Probably the most noteworthy thing they do together is the Commonwealth Games, a sort of mini-Olympics.
  But several other things also use the word. There's the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a grouping of former Soviet states. There's Australia, a country whose full name (in the way the full name of America is the United States of America) is the Commonwealth of Australia (and in Australia, "the Commonwealth" is sometimes used synonymously with "the federal Government"). There are several states in America which are properly termed commonwealths, such as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  
  India is not a commonwealth, but is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Charles III is the head of the Commonwealth but not the monarch, he is separately the monarch of some (but not all) Commonwealth countries. Most Commonwealth countries are republics.
  Australia is both a commonwealth (in name) and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, but those are two separate kinds of commonwealth.
  To summarise: All commonwealths are commonwealths but not all commwealths are the Commonwealth of Nations and not all members of the Commonwealth of Nations are commonwealths (although some are).
- You call that a knife?

Nah, lion is king cause he naps 21 hours a day.
- We used to think that they nap most of the day because we couldn’t see what lions did at night. With new camera technology, we can now. Male lions are, maybe, a little more badass than we thought. Their job is basically to fight other lions and hyenas and shit and patrol their territory. They do this at night. Lionesses are still super badass and maybe even more badass than we originally thought, too. I guess what I’m saying is that lions are just badass. The difference is that lions are social creatures while, as far as we can tell, tigers are more solitary, so there’s a comparison issue there. Male lions do, at least, do a bit more for the pride aside from sleeping and fucking, like some of the old documentaries I remember made it look like. That’s just how they are during the day, but I mean, they’re cats. They do a lot of shit a night we didn’t really have a good handle on until recently. Male lions are big and muscly and powerful not for no reason. They have to have that in case something else wants to fuck around with their pride and find out. The lionesses are the providers, the male lions are the protectors that stay at home and protect the territory. We like to try to fit things into our own ways of understanding, but they just do it different. It’s how they evolved to survive.
  
  Yeah lions are pretty cool but have you considered the fire ant?
  
  Lion is king because he's social. You can't be a king without subjects. Tigers are the ronin of the jungle. Lions are the king of the savanna.

That whole "king of the jungle" bullshit was started by white people that couldn't even point to where a jungle was on a map.
- Asiatic lions used to live in jungles and because of them king of the jungle started . They're close to extinction and confined to a small sanctuary that is still surprise, surprise still a jungle. Now since African Lions are the more prominent species and they show up in discovery/nat geo the most, people think lion is a savanna animal. Lions are very versatile and can live in many biomes.

Lions in the wild are so inbred, they might as well be royalty.

Something that was getting shared a lot once (not too sure how true) that the whole "lion is the king of the jungle" thing was pushed by the Church in Europe to counter the pagan cult of the bear. The bear was basically worshiped as an embodiment of strength, saying that he's not the strongest tarnished his image.
- That's interesting! I associate the term with religiosity, but I'm not sure if that's just me or something I was specifically told growing up.
- Pretty sure a brown bear would destroy a lion
  
  My research tells me a bear would have the upper hand against a lion, but not against a tiger... unless it was a polar bear

The lion is going to bring his girls and they're going to tear the tiger to pieces.
- Savannah pimp

Cheetah are the best!
- I thought it was common knowledge that the S tier wild cat is the jaguar
- The housecat wins. They were the only ones smart enough to attach themselves to humans, thereby ensuring they'd be prolific all over the world. They can be assholes to us and we STILL clean their poop and feed them!
  
  Hey, they have evolved a parasite that lives in our brains and feeds us dopamine when we interact with cats. They are using highly sophisticated bio weapons. We never stood a chance.
  
  Actually you are right, I surrender
- Cheetahs are twinks
- No way, lynx are where it's at. So little, wit big peets.
  
  I will pet them both! at the same time
- And the cutest of the bunch!
- You wouldn't want to fight one. They play dirty, those cheetahs
  
  I wouldn't fight them, I'll pet and cuddle with kitty!

Ligers are things.
- Yeah, but it is like the worst of both worlds.
  
  No that's tigons.

Very Scoot take.
Rest in peace, Big Cat. :c