Lion VS Tiger?
The reason that tigers and lions are never seen on nature shows fighting are because they live on different continents. Lions live in Africa (for the most part) and tigers live in Asia. There is only one place in the wild where the lion and tiger range overlaps- the Gir Forest. Even there, lions and tigers hardly ever come across eachother, since the Gir Forest doesn’t make great tiger “turf” so even there, tigers hardly ever meet up with lions. Many people, because of this overlap in territory, claim that ligers and tigons can be found in the wild. This isn’t true though. Lions and tigers never mate in the wild, because they are not wired to do so, for the same reason that you don’t see people mating with apes. This myth was aroused to try and prove that it’s eithical to hybridize lions and tigers, though it certainly isn’t. The lion/tiger offspring suffer with gigantism, dwarfism, deformities, short lives, chronic problems, etc. The healthy ones often on display are rare. All the sic
