• neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM
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    12 hours ago

    Disclaimer: I’m neither a tigerologist or a wolfonomer, and I’m generally basing this on guesswork.

    For starters tigers are huge. But wolves are pretty huge too, larger than most people think. I believe they are only slightly smaller than Tigers (at least the tigers I saw as a kid in a Danish zoo).

    And I imagine a tiger would have a hard time defending against multiple simultaneous attackers, something I believe wolves like to do, being pack animals.

    So my guess is 2 wolves could take down a tiger. Maybe 3.

    Source: I’m talking about stuff I know little to nothing about. Do not place any bets based on this.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      12 hours ago

      Swede here, I have been inside the wolf pen and petted wolves at Kolmården, before the accident where a wolf pack killed and ate a handler…

      Anyway, they are indeed very large, and they have a very coordinated pack, so yeah, 2 or three could probably do it.

  • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    There’s an estimated 300,000 wolves worldwide. If 10% of them could kill a tiger, then there are 30,000 wolves that could kill a tiger.