<Li> A keeper at the zoo in Jeonju, Korea, where a Siberian tigress was killed by a bigger male lion, said that it was' rare' that a tiger and a lion would fight, and that when they did fight, the outcome depended on which beast got a head start, or was more aggressive . Moreover, he thought that neither beast was superior to the other . </Li> <Li> Apart from the test of intelligence, there were draws for the other tests . In the round of agility, the lioness, rather than a male lion, was as agile as the tiger . The male lions in the test had thick manes . The round of strength was not definitive as the knot of the lion's meat came undone as it pulled the meat from a group of men, whereas that of the tiger stayed as it pulled the meat . The men had a combined weight of 270 kg (600 pounds), which was more than the individual weights of the lion and tiger (BBC, 2016). </Li> <P> In the circuses of Ancient Rome, exotic beasts, including Barbary lions and tigers, were commonly pitted against each other . The contest of the lion against the tiger was a classic pairing, amongst others . A mosaic in the House of the Faun in Pompeii shows a fight between a lion and a tiger . There are different accounts of which of these animals beat or killed the other, throughout time . Although lions and tigers can be kept together in harmony in captivity, conflicts between the two species in captivity, which ended up in fatalities, have also been recorded . </P> <Ul> <Li> Roman Emperor Titus had Bengal tigers compelled to fight African lions, and the tigers always beat the lions . </Li> <Li> A tiger called' Gunga', which belonged to the King of Oude, killed thirty lions, and destroyed another after being transferred to the zoological garden in London . </Li> <Li> Clark (1838) said that a British officer, who resided many years at Sierra Leone, saw many fights between lions and tigers, and that the tiger' universally' won . As a West African nation, Sierra Leone would have had indigenous lions, but not tigers . </Li> <Li> According to the Gettysburg Compiler and The Baltimore Sun (1899), towards the end of the 19th century in India, the Gaekwad of Baroda, that is Sayajirao III, arranged a fight in an amphitheater, between a Barbary lion called' Atlas', from the Atlas Mountains between Algeria and Morocco, and a Bengal tiger from the Indian region of Shimla, both large and hungry (with their diets reduced before the fight), before an audience of thousands, instead of between an Indian lion and the tiger, as Indian lions were believed to be no match for Bengal tigers . The tiger was more than 10 feet (3.0 metres) long, over 4 feet (120 centimetres) feet at the shoulder, had strong shoulders and long teeth and claws, and was agile . The lion looked taller at the head than the tiger, and had a large mane, legs and paws . The tiger was seen as "the personification of graceful strength and supple energy," whereas the lion was seen as the "embodiment of massive power and adamantine muscle ." In the fight, both cats sustained injuries, and although the tiger sometimes retreated from Atlas, it would come back to fight it, and in the end, managed to scratch Atlas to death, though Atlas pushed it off in one final move, before dying . The Gaekwad agreed to pay 37,000 rupees, accepted that the tiger was the "King of the Cat Family," decreed that Atlas' body be given a Royal burial, and that the tiger should have a "cage of honour" in the menagerie of Baroda, and decided to prepare the tiger for a battle with a Sierran Grizzly bear weighing more than 1,500 lb (680 kilograms). The battle was to happen after the tiger recovered from its wounds . </Li> </Ul>

A pair of lions that the tigers should probably take a look at