(SOUTHERN AFRICAN) LION vs (BENGAL) TIGER - Who Would Win a Fight to Death?

This is a comparison between Southern African Lion and Bengal Tiger which will answer the question Who would win in a fight between lion vs tiger?
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SOURCES:
1.Into Africa. Craig Packer. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 1994.
2.The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations. George B Schaller. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago & London. 1972.
3. The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives. Alan Turner. Columbis University Press. New York. 1997.
4. Wild Cats of the World. C A W Guggisberg. Taplinger Publishing Company. New York. 1975.
5. Wild Cats of the World. Mel Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 2002.
6. The Art of Being a Lion. Christine and Michel Denis-Huot. Friedman/Fairfax. 2002.
7. Tiger Haven. Arjan Singh. Harper & Row, Publishers. New York. 1973.
8. The Tiger: Its Life in the Wild. George B Schaller, Millicent E Selsam. Harper & Row, Publishers. New York. 1969.
9. The Way of the Tiger. K Ullas Karanth. Voyageur Press. 2001.
10. Wild Cats of the World. C A W Guggisberg. Taplinger Publishing Company. New York. 1975.
11. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mammals. Dr Vladimir Hanak, Dr Vratislav Mazak, Edited by Susan Lowry. Artica. Prague. 1979.
12. Wild Cats of the World. Mel Sunquist, Fiona Sunquist. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 2002.
13. The Tiger: Power and Fragility; Predator-Prey Relationships among the Large Mammals of Nagarhole National Park (India). Karanth, K.U. 1993a. Ph.D. Thesis, Mangalore Univ., Mangalore.
14. Wild Animals in Central India. A A Dunber Brander. Edward Arnold & Co. London. 1923
15. Animal Facts and Feats: A Guinness Record of the Animal Kingdom. Gerald L Wood. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1977 (& 1972)
16. Animal Facts and Feats: A Guinness Record of the Animal Kingdom. Gerald L Wood. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1977 (& 1972) – Largest Tiger ever recorded: Page 44
17. Principles of Animal Mechanics. Rev Samuel Haughton FRS. Longmans, Green & Company. London. 1873 Proof that a Tiger is much stronger than a lion: (Page 382);
18. Big Cats: Kingdom of Might. Tom Brakefield. Voyageur Press. 1993. Proof that Tiger has larger canines: (Page 40)
Evidence that the Tiger has a greater bite force than the lion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bite_fo...
19. Tigers in Red Weather. Ruth Padel. Walker and Company. New York. 2006. (Page 77)
20. Canine tooth strength and killing behaviour in large carnivores. Van Valkenburgh and C. B. Ruff. Journal of Zoology, London. 1987, Vol 212. (Page 382)
Evidence that the lion's mane is almost useless:
21. The Lions of Tsavo: Exploring the Legacy of Africa’s Notorious Man-Eaters. Bruce D Patterson. McGraw-Hill. 2004. (Chapter 7)
22. http://www.cbs.umn.edu/sites/default/... A Science-Direct Study who claim that: “the protective benefits of the mane are minimal.”
Proof that Tiger is more agile than Lion:
23. Animal Facts and Feats: A Guinness Record of the Animal Kingdom. Gerald L Wood. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1977 (& 1972).
24. The Amazing Planet. Roy Chapman Andrews. 1940.

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