<Li> John Smith Clarke, a British lion tamer, said, in a lecture on the fight between a tiger and a lion given to the Glasgow Zoological Society, while showing the actual fight on the screen, "in 100 cases out of 100 the tiger would always beat the lion . It was far more agile, it was not so clumsy in its movements, it was equally strong, it was equally armed, but it fought in a different way . The tiger very often fought rolling on its back and held the lion in its grip until it defeated him ." </Li> <Li> The BBC (2016), in a 3 - round study of agility, strength and intelligence, favored the tiger in the case of intelligence, due to the time spent for a particular challenge . </Li> <Li> National Geographic Channel's documentary The Last Lions of Asia mentioned that a Bengal tiger had a weight advantage of 50 kilograms (110 lb) over an Asiatic lion, and could kill a lone lion in a fight . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Clyde Beatty, the animal trainer and performer who owned several tigers, lions, hyenas, and other exotic animals, believed that in nine out of ten times, "a full - grown lion would whip a full - grown tiger". He mentioned that since he first began mixing the animals, 25 of his tigers (two of them being Siberian tigers, the rest of them being Bengal tigers) were killed in the circus arena, but there was not a single lion casualty . </Li> <Li> Renowned naturalist and conservationist of India, Kailash Sankhala wrote in his book Tiger that the tiger would be unable to get close to lion's vital joints because of his thick mane, and that the tiger would be vulnerable to the lion . He mentioned that once an Indian prince organized a fight in which the lion killed the tiger, and opined that "a tiger is no match for even single lion of equal strength". </Li> </Ul>

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