This is false, lions and tigers are very similar sizes, and indeed are incredibly similar overall. They are almost indistinguishable by their skeletons. I don’t know where you got this information, but it is wrong.
Guess again. A full grown male lion tops out at about ~400 pounds, or about the weight of a female tiger.
A male bengal tiger can easily hit ~700 pounds. If a lion isn’t at the top of his game and weighs maybe 350 pounds, which is easy when you lay around all day instead of wandering the jungles constantly hunting for meals, that’s about a 100% difference.
700 pounds of tightly coiled muscles waiting to pounce. If you’re in a jungle you’ll never see it coming. Maybe in a wide open field a lion could put up a good fight, but if you’re in the jungle never bet against the tiger.
In fact, just never bet against a tiger period. They are far more aggressive than lions and have little to no mercy. A human could be friends with a lion but rarely a tiger. To even be somewhat respected by a tiger you’d first probably have to be an absolute unit.
