 If you're one male trying to compete against these groups, you're doomed. But if you have a partner, it's an enormous advantage. And people don't normally associate cats, let alone big cats, with swimming at all, do they? Yeah, and, you know, the thing is that we might not be thinking that large cats ordinarily swim very far. In the lions, they're mostly in drier habitats. But tigers, along the shore of the Bay of Bengal, in the Sunderbans, which is located in the mouth of the Ganges, between Bangladesh,