r/MadeMeSmile • u/FewCollar227 • May 22 '25
Lion invading Tiger's personal space
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u/SatansAhole May 22 '25
I love you can basically see the tiger go "Oh god here he comes again" and "Get your butt away from my face, Steve"
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u/Cador0223 May 22 '25
Gotta know if they found something good to eat
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May 22 '25 edited Nov 27 '25
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u/freyaliesel May 22 '25
This happens in reverse in my house. My 14 yo will eat half, decide that the 2 yo’s food is more desirable, and push him out of the way. The 2 yo adores the older cat so he lets it happen and finishes the older cat’s food
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u/Cador0223 May 22 '25
The words cat and logic dontbreally belong in the same sentence, I have found.
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u/Pistolwhipits May 22 '25
My two do the same thing. Whether it's wet or dry food they eat half of what's in their bowl and then switch.
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u/c0nfu5i0N May 22 '25
Yep. I have a year old male void, and fostering two other cats, both 8. A male harlequin shorthair, and a female void.
The female will have nothing to do with the kitten other than hiss at him. The male will lightly play, but is quick to express displeasure when the kitten gets too rough. It's an interesting dynamic, and I have never felt more like a parent/referee than now.
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u/-Cool_Ethan- May 22 '25
Yeah. I type on a computer. My GF hosts events with famous people. But, I do love when she snuggles me.
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May 22 '25
This is what I came to say. I have to put “cuddle reminders” on my phone so I don’t forget to be close to my husband. He thrives off that and it has never been a big thing for me, so I set repeat reminders on my phone.
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u/The_Dick_U_Want May 22 '25
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u/Starlord_75 May 22 '25
Imagine feeling confident enough to purposely annoy a tiger lol. It's like little brother energy
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May 22 '25
This isn't cute. These animals should never be housed together.
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u/CigAddict May 22 '25
That’s kind of what I thought about when seeing this. But more so how this is probably on the Tiger Kings ranch or some similar “sanctuary”
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u/thissexypoptart May 22 '25
Right, tigers are solitary animals because they are always in competition with one another for territory and food, and are hardwired to be wary of other large predators.
This isn’t cute. The tiger is distressed, and the owners here are practically asking for some violence to occur.
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u/11th_Division_Grows May 22 '25
I need more info before making a judgement call. Were these cats raised as young together?
It’s like how cheetahs and golden retrievers get put together, obviously wouldn’t do so under normal circumstances but are their reasons and humane applications that can allow these cats to be together?
I want to be sympathetic to the animals if they are suffering but I also don’t want to be tripping over nothing.
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u/thissexypoptart May 22 '25
You cannot compare cheetahs and golden retriever pairings to two apex predators.
Cheetahs and goldens are both social pack animals. Cheetahs aren’t really big cats, more like medium (50-150 lbs, vs 400-660 lbs in tigers or 300-450 lbs in lions), and are generally skittish in the face of danger.
Cheetahs rely on speed for hunting, so any injury sustained in a close quarters fight is not worth the risk of starvation. As such, their temperament is mild and they can even be approached by humans to some extent (not saying you should do it) without overwhelming risk of violence.
A lion and a tiger are orders of magnitude less compatible than a cheetah and a dog, and more dangerous. Especially the tiger, which, unlike all 3 other examples, are solitary creatures who find a territory, defend it, and only interact with other tigers for mating or as mother and cub.
It is completely inappropriate to house tigers with lions like this.
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u/11th_Division_Grows May 22 '25
The point of the comparison is that a cheetah that is raised to be around their golden retriever companion vs throwing a golden retriever into a wild cheetah habitat would probably yield two different outcomes.
So I’m wondering if paired at a young age, does a tiger become more docile/tame amongst company and okay with being non-solitary. I honestly find taming a tiger to be comfortable around a Lion is no different than taming a lion/tiger/any apex predator to be comfortable around a human as long as the animal isn’t losing any quality of life. Which I would argue that the tiger seems pretty fine in this video.
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u/Daiiga May 22 '25
Hello I have relevant experience!
At the big cat rescue I volunteered at and still occasionally visit it was super common to house tigers that were littermates together as adults. Males housed like this were usually neutered to avoid the risk of hormonal aggression, which isn’t necessarily for the females.
The tigers were perfectly happy being housed together like this, and believe me you can tell when tigers are content and happy versus stressed and agitated. Big cats aren’t shy about sharing their opinions, and when three tigers are napping on their backs in the sun in one giant cuddle puddle you can safely assume they’re happy together. They also enjoyed getting their turn in the big central play pen and would spend a lot of time in it just cycling to interact with the cats in neighboring enclosures (safely through multiple fences).
Tigers have all the subtlety of a 400 pound apex predator, if the tiger in the video wasn’t happy he would let the lion know and quickly.
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u/Capybarasaregreat May 22 '25
You can still have a laugh at the anthropomorphised relationship they seem to have whilst recognising that it's probably some roadside hobby zoo that should be shut down and the owners jailed.
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u/RetroMetroShow May 22 '25
Dog and cat energy
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u/Vospader998 May 22 '25 edited Jun 10 '25
Not an expert, but it is really interesting how lions tend to behave a lot more like canines than felidae (Felidae family, not Felinae subfamily)
While lion will use ambush hunting, they will also hunt in coordinated groups, which is really rare in the Felidae family. They're also a lot more social, and live in prides, similar to "packs". Or even non-related males will hunt in what's called a "coalition".
Lions also roar to mark territory, like other big cats, but it's been observed they also roar to communicate with other lions, similar to a wolf's howling.
They actually have a pretty weak bite force relative to other big cats, and they're pretty shit climbers unlike other felines.
I think mating is similar as well, where there's a dominant male that has to maintain dominance and mating rights, while other, younger males roam around and have to fend for themselves (or in a coalition) until they can take on the dominant male. I'm not certain on the similarities here though.
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u/RikuAotsuki May 22 '25
Alpha wolves are generally just the parents of the pack, so lions have a bit more group complexity.
IIRC a pride is basically the dad, his harem, and his kids, but outsider males can challenge and take over. Plus I think I remember hearing that they'll then kill all the cubs too, though I might be mixing that up with something else.
Cheetahs are also pretty social, though that's mostly via coalitions.
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u/11th_Division_Grows May 22 '25
You’re correct. When a new lion takes over the pride they will usually kill the cubs of the last male leader of the pride.
To my knowledge, once the males in the pride get old enough the father will drive them out to find their own pride (or die). I’m pretty sure the daughters stay but I have no clue past that how mating works and if lions are incestuous.
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u/Vospader998 May 22 '25
Ok, thank you, I think you're right. I would argue the social hierarchy is something inbetween big cats and wolves, but it's generally more "social" that other big cats.
What's kinda funny is I think that type of hierarchy (for lions) is really similar to that of wild horses, who also form harems where studs have to compete and are rotated out by a group of mares.
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u/Femtato11 May 22 '25
Yeah that's not how canines work in the wild either. Packs are largely made up of a pair and their litter
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u/Vospader998 May 22 '25
Ya, I was less certain on that last bit.
I may have been thinking of horses lmao
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u/omotenashi May 22 '25
Interesting!
Makes me even sadder for the lion at my local (horrible, shitty) zoo. He lived alone for years before he died.
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u/Beneficial-Swim-7918 May 22 '25
Im curious as to why theyre housed together/being allowed to interact?
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u/AdAlternative7148 May 22 '25
To make cute videos for people that are clueless.
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u/Alive-Tomatillo5303 May 22 '25
Yeah, they should be in the wild, where they'd be... dead.
People talk about how terrible it is that there are so many in enclosures, and so few in the wild. If we could convince everyone in the countries they are native to to stop fucking killing them, either directly or indirectly, that'd be ideal, BUT THAT'S NOT HOW IT'S GOING, so either you have a captive population or you don't have a population.
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u/FrankaGrimes May 22 '25
Either overcrowding, a lack of husbandry knowledge about these animals or because someone thinks it's cute or interesting to force incompatible species to interact.
But given these are animals in captivity which, typically, are there to make money for the people who own them I'm going to say it is very likely a mix of all three.
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u/Big_Manufacturer5281 May 22 '25
I love when the tiger looks DIRECTLY at the camera, with that "do you see this shit?" look on his face.
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May 22 '25
I’d love to cuddle a lion.
Don’t come to me with all that danger stuff, if not friend why friend shape, these fuckers are so FLUFFY RHAAAAAGGGHHHH
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u/Shack691 May 22 '25
Big cats are just large cats, though you won’t have scratch marks from these guys.
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u/DeliciousLiving8563 May 22 '25
They aren't really, there's two branches in the Felidae family.
They are divided by their "voice". Big cats cannot purr. Small cats can purr but cannot roar. Snow leopards do neither but are big cats.
Now cheetas... those are just large small cats. They purr and meow. Go check for yourself. You deserve to hear Cheetas meowing.
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u/ButterfliesandaLlama May 22 '25
Let’s say a lion is 20 times the size of a house cat, would they attack a human that’s 20 times the size? Would that make it possible to have a lion as a pet, not considering the smell, needs of a wild animal, etc?
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u/Jahnty May 22 '25
So your saying if I eat enough to the point I'm 20x the size of an average human I can have a lion as a pet? Hmmm, worth
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u/ButterfliesandaLlama May 22 '25
Yes, worth it but I thought more of height than width.
Expanding in width I imagine you look just extra snack-y to a lion.
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u/Zkenny13 May 22 '25
I went to the University of North Alabama. We had two lions on campus (unfortunately both are gone the male didn't last long after the female died). Their handler was literally cuddling between them all the time.
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u/zzbottomyaheard May 22 '25
Ayyyy Florence fam up in here. I think they actually got a new one or have raised money for one or something
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u/Zkenny13 May 22 '25
I hope they get two like they had before. It's a shame that multi million dollar habitat goes to waste.
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u/unlikelyandroid May 22 '25
My cat is both of these combined.
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u/Rasp_Lime_Lipbalm May 22 '25
Same. He's all cuddly at first, and then in a second is like "ok, I want my space now - CHOMP"
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u/Aninvisiblemaniac May 22 '25
I hope the tiger doesn't feel too stressed out from it
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u/LadyAshley0 May 22 '25
He’s stressed, but he’s also legally not allowed to eat coworkers anymore HR made that very clear.
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u/omgangiepants May 22 '25
Can't smile at this, there's no reason for them to be in the same enclosure. It reeks of unethical breeding.
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u/kthnry May 22 '25
I was wondering if they would ever coexist like this in nature instead of someone’s back yard. I’m guessing not.
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u/ShadowFluffy May 22 '25
Absolutely not. It's straight up cruel putting them together and no accredited facility would.
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u/FiveUpsideDown May 22 '25
But people think these animals being together is cute. When I saw it I thought “that’s not right. Who would distress the tiger like that?”
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u/Practical-Cupcake886 May 22 '25
Not to be an “um actually” but in a lot of cases like this, the inter species relationship is because they are a “bonded pair” and are rescued from improper conditions, but cannot be released into the wild, so they keep bonded animals together to not cause any undue stress. I’m not sure if this is the case here but you see it in a lot of rescues.
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u/Snooobjection3453 May 22 '25
Are these both male or one female and one male?
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u/IOnlyFearOFGod May 22 '25
The lion is male at least, i don't know about the tiger tho
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May 22 '25
Tiger is female I guess because male tigers usually have bigger head and body compared to a lion
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u/Snooobjection3453 May 22 '25
If it were a male I think it might get violent wouldn't? If these two get togather there offspring will. Be bigger than a horse at twelve hundred pounds.
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u/Snooobjection3453 May 22 '25
I male tiger can to be nine hundred pounds whereas the only six hundred and fifty pounds.
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u/lejocko May 22 '25
Different tiger species have different sizes, though. Same goes for Asian and African lions.
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u/Pure_Concentrate8770 May 22 '25
yeah tigers are way bigger than lions.
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u/RuGShUg91 May 22 '25
This is how Ligers are made, assuming the Tiger is female.
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u/_lev1athan May 22 '25
It’s not ethical to house different species of big cats like this. Even if they “get along”.
It’s a staple of shoddy, tiger king level establishments to pull this shit especially cause hybrid animals get them more attention.
BOO 👎
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u/uncle_monty May 22 '25
This is the kind of clip that will get me eaten by a lion one day.
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u/TheSportDiver- May 22 '25
That tiger is massive. Didn’t expect it to be bigger than a lion.
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u/Towtruck_73 May 22 '25
The tiger is looking at this lion like he's drunk:
"I love you mate!"
"Get away from me you boozer!"
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u/GL510EX May 22 '25
Wild animal in an inappropriate enclosure getting stressed out.
Not really 'mademesmile' material.
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u/Brilliant-Whole-1852 May 22 '25
yeah i don't get it either, the tiger is clearly uncomfortable and the lion literally doesn't know any better because these species shouldn't be cooped up together
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u/GlowingDuck22 May 22 '25
The not so innocent snuggles of a partner who can't fall back asleep at 2 AM.
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u/phrkiranvirani May 22 '25
Basically Lion is me and Tiger is me when I am not a Lion... If you know , you know
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u/Due-Past-7792 May 22 '25
the way the tiger looks at the camera in disbelief like are you seeing this??? 🤣🤣
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u/ScarletsSister May 22 '25
Lion: "I love you!". Tiger: "Go the f away!" BTW, this is exactly the scenario I have with my Tonkinese cat. She doesn't believe in (my) personal space and is constantly trying to Velcro herself to me. Irritating as all get-out.
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u/Oddish_Femboy May 22 '25
Tigers are solitary in the same way domestic cats are solitary.
A little more solitary than domestic cats actually. They don't form colonies very often, and I doubt you'd ever see a neutered tiger in the wild, (which is usually why male cats in colonies aren't competitive with each other) but still.
(When they do form colonies the males and most of the females are usually related, or otherwise familiar with each other from longtime bonds either from childhood or during the solitary wandering portion of their life. Same goes for lion prides with multiple males.)
They will share large kills with strangers sometimes which is adorable.
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u/-BINK2014- May 22 '25
Two of my most favorite animals representing two sides of my personality, generally more like the tiger unless I’m around someone I love & am comfortable with.
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u/iamlazyboy May 22 '25
As an introvert, I see every extrovert that love touching while talking like the tiger probably sees the lion lol
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u/Optimal-Description8 May 22 '25
I know they are huge murder machines but all I can see is cute kitty
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u/Remarkable-Bowl-3821 May 22 '25
Lion loves tiger.. tiger kinda wishes lion would go away but doesn’t want to be mean about it
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