Which is the largest cat on earth a TIGER or a LION ?

Answer 1

well the largest cat that can be found in the wild is the Siberian tigers followed very closley by the african male lion. The average male siberian tiger gets up to about 650lbs where the lion hits about 600. but if you just want the biggest cats that are living. The Lyger a product of a female tiger and male lion is the biggest cat around they grow to about twelve feet and weigh in at about 1200lbs.

Answer 2

A Tiger is the largest cat on earth! Don't get mix up with all of the stories about ligers. Yes, they may have been real but they are not here now. Man did an experiment with them and produced a Liger. As with your actual question it is a Tiger. The largest predatory cat on Earth!

Answer 3

Well the largest cat on earth would be the LIGER, which is a cross between a male lion and a female tiger. They can weigh up to 850 lbs. and some have been reported to weigh over 1100lbs.

The siberian tiger is the largest naturally occuring cat, where males can weigh up to 650-700lbs.

The African lion is the largest cat in Africa. The male can weigh up to 500lbs.

Answer 4

The largest cat on the earth is the lion.

Answer 5

EXTINCT CATS

http://www.boneclones.com/BC-019A.htm says that the American lion (Panthera leo atrox or Felis oatrox) lived 14,000 years ago and is considered to be the largest species of cat to have ever roamed the Earth. One individual weighed 900 pounds, while African lions weigh an average of 300 pounds.
http://www.beringia.com/02/02maina5.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_lion have additional information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_lion says that the closely related Eurasian cave lion (Pantehera leo spelaea) was the largest cat ever and was 25% larger than the modern lion.

http://www.lioncentral.com/lionnews.html says that the purpose of the sabre teeth of sabre-tooth tigers is controversial. Some people suggest that the canines were used to kill prey. Others believe the teeth were used for display, indicating that sabre-tooths were social animals."

Michael J Benton wrote 'The rise of the mammals'. He sais that the knife-like sabre teeth were blunt at the ends and could not be used for puncturing the prey or for slicing off its skin. Smildon probbaly grasped loose skin on the neck of its victim and shook and pulled until it could close its jaws annd tear out a great chunk of skin. If the prey escaped, the sabre-tooth followed it and waited until the prey bled to death.

http://wiw.org/~jess/archives/2003/12/07/bear-versus-tiger/ has various comments. Travis Jackson says that the sabre-toothed tiger (Smilodon fatalis) was much stronger than today's cats and were built like a grizzly bear, with the same power. Sabre-tooths weighed 500-750 pounds and could hit and strike harder than today's cats. The long canines were very brittle and a charge could knock down a bison, while the canines killed by going for the neck.

Answer 6

The largest purebred cat is a tiger.however,Ligers,which are hybrids of the two,are larger than both lions and tigers.

Answer 7

Some years ago they were able to breed a combination of the two, which I believe was hugh compared to both. You might google the lion/tiger hybrid

Answer 8

there have been a pair of diverse species of Smilodon. In late Pleistocene North united statesa., the main straightforward became Smilodon fatalis, which could have been the size you point out above. even nonetheless, in South united statesa., there became yet another Smilodon: Smilodon populator, which became lots extra effective. It became probable around six hundred-650 lbs on basic, and there is one skeleton that would perhaps have been upwards of 800 lbs while alive. to date as i understand, Smilodon populator is the biggest usually used felid - residing or extinct. in basic terms as an addition on your checklist, there became additionally a subspecies of lion, Panthera leo atrox, referred to as the North American lion that lived interior the U. S. & Canada up till the tip of the final Ice Age 10,000 years in the past. It became extra effective than the African lion, and became probable around the comparable length because of the fact the Siberian/Amur tiger - interior the area of 650 lbs.

Answer 9

The Tiger is the largest feline.

Answer 10

Ligers are larger than both, ligers are tiger/lion breed