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(09-16-2023, 03:17 PM)peter Wrote: According to Heptner and Sludskij ('Die Saugetiere der Sowjet-Union') and Mazak ('Der Tiger'), Caspian tigers were often seen, and shot, in the Altai Mountains in the recent past (about two centuries ago). Photograph A. Kudrin:
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Define irony, you live in a particular area but instead of using the name for you, they use it for your brother of an entire different area (Amur).
So, in theory, "altaica" should be better for the Caspian tiger, while the Amur one should be "amurensis" or something like that.