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Which animal has the strongest bite pressure?

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They should use one of those sports science machines they use to measure force that athletes can exert, and bring it to a zoo.

Total force matters when you are talking about trauma, and PSI matters when you are talking about localized injuries, like whether a bone will break in a limb. A large animal may be able to take a huge impact force, but a small animal can still hurt a larger one by applying a relatively large amount of force to a small area.

This is why piranhas (or even small dogs😀) are not fun to tangle with.
Also, I'm pretty sure this thread is just another excuse for a lions thread.
 
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A tiger would beat a lion any day, for the same reason smaller fights can be larger ones in the UFC. They have more of the unmeasurables, such as fighter's instinct, karate knowledge, heart, and an iron will. Lions just sit around on their ass all day. They can't fight.
 
smackababy said:
A tiger would beat a lion any day, for the same reason smaller fights can be larger ones in the UFC. They have more of the unmeasurables, such as fighter's instinct, karate knowledge, heart, and an iron will. Lions just sit around on their ass all day. They can't fight.
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Lions kind of suck anyway. I'm not a fan of the huge cats. I like the smaller big cats like mountain lions, jaguars, and leopards.
 
So whats here so far that shows the lion bites harder than the tiger?

- Professor Ph.D. Yale Paleobiology (lions have the most powerful bite of mammals)
- The fact that the tiger has less cranial volume so less skull mass = less biting pressure (oxford university)
- The heaviest lion skull exceeds the largest tiger skull (10 examples given)
- The tigers fangs are longer and more suspect to break:

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Yup, thats about right, four solid scientific sources and different catagories of pressure guaging that shows the lion has a much more powerful bite. Also theoretically as I already stated the lion hunts bigger animals on average which would require more biting power of the 4 large mega faunas, hippos, giraffes, rhinos and elephants. Also in direct competition the lion must face hyenas (pretty hard biters) which the male lions usually dominate, in vice versa, the male tiger usually gets dominated by 50 lb wild dogs aka D'hole.


Still think the Killer whale has the top spot.


smackababy said:
A tiger would beat a lion any day, for the same reason smaller fights can be larger ones in the UFC. They have more of the unmeasurables, such as fighter's instinct, karate knowledge, heart, and an iron will. Lions just sit around on their ass all day. They can't fight.
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Theres so much fail in this post its hilarious, lets break it down:

A tiger would beat a lion any day
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Its too bad all the experts who've actually witnessed hundreds of fights don't agree with you via Clyde beatty, Bert nelson, Terrell Jacobs, Peter Taylor and Dave hoover.

for the same reason smaller fights can be larger ones in the UFC
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Wha? I thought you tiger fantics were bousting out the tiger was the largest, wouldn't that make the lion the under dog? That would imply the lion is the winner...nice.

They have more of the unmeasurables, such as fighter's instinct, karate knowledge,
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Not according to A list Biologist who actually studyed them in the wild, George B schaller stated tigers don't fight as often as lions do, so did Kailash sahnkala (known as the tiger man), the worlds greatest tiger conservationlist, who also tested the theory and set up a goat for a tiger to attack, after he was seen sharing it with a rival male. Biologist Sunquist also said the same thing who also mentions tigers do not have governing rules like lions who have strict laws of battle engagements when its crossed, so where is the fighting instincts from? You have to learn before you apply or teach, the tiger is solitary, he learns from nothing, the lion is in a social socity like a Gym where they train all day every day. lol


heart, and an iron will.
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Actually by hunters who've hunted both say the tiger is the most cowardly by turns, via Hunters Samuel w. baker and Sanderson a bunch of trainers say this too like mabel starks, Louis roth ect, even every national flag hoice the lion as strength courage and power, theres like a 100 to 1 for lions against tigers in that catagorie.


They can't fight
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More like you cant fight. lol
 
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The Saltwater Crocodile has 7700 PSI. Pound per Square Inch is the pressure resulting from a force of one pound-force applied to an area of one square inch.
 
Mai72 said:
What about the great white shark?
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I guess when you basically have a bunch of knives in your mouth you don't even need to bite that hard, great whites have "only" about 600psi.

So...
Crocodile vs Great white... who do you think wins?

round one.

FIGHT!

:biggrin:
 
So, your original question is not the question you wanted to ask. You don't want to know which animal has the largest bite pressure. You want to know which animal has the largest bite force.

Is that simple enough for you? For an answer, I would posit a beached blue whale. The force would be at least equal to the weight of the head above the mouth. Since the weight of a blue whale is around 400,000 pounds, the force is obviously in the 10's of thousands of pounds.
 
DrPizza said:
So, your original question is not the question you wanted to ask. You don't want to know which animal has the largest bite pressure. You want to know which animal has the largest bite force.

Is that simple enough for you? For an answer, I would posit a beached blue whale. The force would be at least equal to the weight of the head above the mouth. Since the weight of a blue whale is around 400,000 pounds, the force is obviously in the 10's of thousands of pounds.
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Looking at a picture of a blue whale, are you sure? Most of the mass is below the opening of the mouth.
 
Red Squirrel said:
I wonder if they measure that in the middle of the mouth or at the tip (front teeth) or back, or if it's some kind of average. If you look at something like a crocodile they have a rather long mouth, is it actually 5000 psi at the tip? That's an insane amount of force if yes.
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Just the tip?

Anyway, it's the Sarlacc.
 
Silver Prime said:
I dont know now of any real science that measures by psi, psi is just the guage, ....
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So, do you honestly never take pause and consider why every one here, and quite likely everyone you know, considers you to be an abject moron?

Think about it: you say such demonstrably false things like this, which are easily verifiable, and you insist that you are correct.
 
Call a woman by her best friend's name when she is giving you head, probably trump any other beast known to man.
 
alkemyst said:
Call a woman by her best friend's name when she is giving you head, probably trump any other beast known to man.
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Funny that you say this, because I actually read an article that said the human bite is limited in pressure by the brain. You easily have enough force to bite off a finger, however, your brain does not allow you to excerpt that much force when biting a finger. If, coaxed into believing it as a sausage or something supposed to be eaten, a women (or man) shouldn't have much trouble severing a penis with her mouth.
 
Silver Prime said:
Most people don't even know what PSI means, it just means: Per Square Inch...if it was just 600 psi, that would mean 600 square inches, that doesnt even make any sense and would protain to radius, the actual pressure is coded by Newtons.
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Out of curiosity, where did you get your engineering or science degree at?
 
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