# Tiger vs. Wolf: Who wins? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 24, 2004, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-wolf-who-wins/281456 "2004-12-24T07:34:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-wolf-who-wins/281456/61 "2004-12-27T16:12:05Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > I sure wish I could find that stupid video I saw. > According to a PBS story, a cheetah won’t fight hardly _anything_. They are pretty small, though. Cheetah’s won’t fight not because they are cowardly or small but because they are smart. They can easily catch a new meal but if they get in a scuffle with a hyena or a lion and get an injury (even a monor one) to their legs they will starve. If they can’t run they can’t hunt. They run down their prey whereas other predators use stealth, size and/or pack cooperation to catch prey which involves a lot less running on their parts. I am very fond of wolves and cats of all sizes. I can’t play favorites here, a tiger would win paws down for reasons already mentioned size, strength and weaponry (claws) - unless the wolf was safely hidden in a hunting blind with a rifle and night scope. In a fight with a wolf and cheetah, the wolf would win by default because the cheetah would walk away. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-wolf-who-wins/281456/62 "2004-12-28T15:05:01Z")
> [@Chotii](#): > > As far as I know, it is against the law of the jungle to kill man. But it would be foolish to kill man’s animals when there is a jungle full of wild prey (and the jungle animals were disdainful, IIRC, of Sher Khan for killing domestic animals). After all, man is protective of his animals, and while a maneater would bring out the white men on elephants, with beaters and torches…one that’s killing domestic animals might still bring out the guns. It would be a dangerous thing. Hey, quit legislating from the bench! The law of the jungle is quite unambiguous, and it’s either against the law to kill cattle or it’s not. I say we ask Baloo for a ruling. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JCorre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-wolf-who-wins/281456/63 "2004-12-28T21:55:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Anyone seen that video of the officer who tries to restrain a kitty cat, on a leash no less? [pinky the cat](http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pinky.html) Have fun. ---
**Author:** ![Jenally101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Jenally101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenally101)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-wolf-who-wins/281456/64 "2015-07-02T01:16:48Z")
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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-wolf-who-wins/281456/65 "2015-07-02T01:43:04Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > I love the Jungle Book (so does my son–we used to read it together when he was little). Did you read it in Boris Karloff’s voice? (When I was a kid we had a couple of records of Karloff reading the Jungle Book and the Just So Stories. Magnificent! When I read to my kids, I always did it in as close to his voice as I could. [Here](https://ia801404.us.archive.org/24/items/JustSoStories/03_theElephantsChild.mp3) is a sample of the Elephant’s Child.) ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-wolf-who-wins/281456/66 "2015-07-02T01:58:47Z")
Mountain lions, less than 1/2 the size of a tiger prey on solitary wolves as a food item. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-wolf-who-wins/281456/67 "2015-07-02T02:23:17Z")
I’m not sure what the point was of reviving an 11-year-old thread, but it’s closed, now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiger-vs-wolf-who-wins/281456.md?page=3)