The tiger is the king of animals, but it looks like Xiaohua Mall. Are they the same ancestor?

Of course they are the same ancestor. They all belong to cats, not only because people draw them separately for the convenience of research, but because they do have great similarities.

Cats and tigers look so much alike. The tiger is an enlarged version of the cat, and the cat is also a miniature version of the tiger. This is from the appearance. There is nothing wrong with this statement, but in fact, the most important difference between the two is living habits. The tiger belongs to the king of the forest. People often say that one mountain can't accommodate two tigers, which shows that it has a strong sense of territory, which is a major feature of the tiger as a king. At the same time, tigers live alone and generally feed on larger animals, such as red deer and sheep. Cats are smaller, and the animals they eat are generally smaller animals, such as mice and so on.

In fact, it is the environment that has changed the evolutionary direction of animals. There may be little difference between cats and tigers in front of hundreds of millions of people, but they have different evolutionary directions because they go to different places to feed and have different things in different places.

Wherever the tiger goes, the individual food is generally larger, so if the tiger evolves into a smaller size, it will of course be eliminated by this nature. Because the individuals of food are relatively large, tigers need to spend a lot of effort to firmly grasp the food, otherwise the food will easily escape after a struggle or two. The tiger not only made great efforts to hunt, but also let the food run away and finally starved to death.

Where cats go, the size of food is relatively small, and other larger animals are very rare to kill, or cats are too big to catch. So cats can only catch some smaller animals. Under this condition, cats get much less energy each time they prey than tigers. If the cat's physical strength is still high, its survival is definitely problematic. Therefore, after cats prey on these smaller foods, they will gradually evolve into smaller animals in order to reduce consumption.

In fact, modern humans are also very similar to monkeys. Maybe they had the same ancestor hundreds of millions of years ago, but later monkeys often stayed in trees, and that long tail didn't recede for a long time. The ancestors of human beings have gradually lived on the ground, and there is no need to keep their tails to balance their bodies. At the same time, they learned to use tools and gradually evolved into modern people.

Cats and tigers are actually the same, but the environment has changed them. They have evolved into different species, but what the environment can change them is limited, so that they still retain a very similar appearance.