Is it true that the male amur tiger is more powerful /stronger than the adult african lion?
The Bengal tiger can kill something 20 times its own size. A 500 pound tiger can kill a 10,000 pound male Asian adult elephant with tusks in about 8 hours. Sometimes the tiger dies in the fight. This is a last ditch effort to obtain food when the tiger has no other choice except starvation. Elephants are not the main prey nor the normal prey of Bengal tigers. Leopards however regularly and routinely kill animals 10 times their own body weight on a regular basis. That makes it the strongest cat in proportion to its size. A 120 pound leopard can kill a 1,200 pound horned, hooved African animal. Jaguars have the strongest bite of any cat. Not in relation to its size, not in proportion, just flat out strongest bite of any cat. Lions bite at 1,000 pounds per square inch, or psi, so jaguars bite even harder than that because they like to crack open strong turtle shells to eat it in South America so the jaws have to be strong. It can’t survive its habitat with weak jaws. Siberian tigers are s
