What is the survival advantage of the solitary behavior of tigers?

Subject: What is the survival advantage of the solitary behavior of tigers?

Date: Sun Oct 24 16:23:45 2004
Posted by Jim
Grade level: nonaligned School: none
City: San Francisco State/Province: CA Country: USA
Area of science: Evolution
ID: 1098653025.Ev

Message:


Lions, wolves & many other species have been selected to live & hunt in prides, 
packs, etc. which evidently give them a survival advantage. Yet tigers &  other 
cats are famously solitary hunters & have surved as long as lions, suggesting 
that somehow that behavior also has survival advantage. This seems 
contradictory to the theory of natural selection.

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