The Caspian Tiger (Panthera tigris virgata)

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(10-31-2023, 03:35 AM)lfelipe86 Wrote: I agree with everything that you wrote, however to get confirmation, effort to get those confirmations are needed!! At Zanzibar sightings were been recorded for years and nothing was done, they were always dismissed as not true! Just like caspian tigers, not only in Iran but other places like Afghanistan and Kazakhstan!! It took a foreigner(Galante) to go there and get it on camera!, If it is a viable population or not only more research can tell and again nothing has been done since than or just not enough! Many evidence of tigers have been found and they are dismissed by authorities just like the Zanzibar leopard case!!! For exemple: a few years ago, a tigress with cubs was reported near a village in Kalaleh, the authorities just dismissed it as not true because there has been no reports of tigers by officials in the area, which is again not true, many rangers have reported tigers in Golestan area over the years like i mentioned!! Scats that could have been collected have been reported by locals, pugmarks, etc... , even the iranian department found pugmarks at parvar that were been reported for years! Paul Joslin had found 17cm pugmarks in northern iran way befored those from de iranian department! those are very isolated areas! They get leopards in camera traps, they just need to take them to more isolated areas and follow the sightings! 

Unlike Zanzibar, Central asia and the middle east are huge places with many isolated areas that could still hide tigers! If an island so small like Zanzibar can hide a leopard, imagine central asia and the middle east! Your points are valid! but to get those confirmations they need go get pass their lazarus effects and others that probably are holding them back!

The situations that lead people to claim to have seen an animal, its footprints, feces, its actions, its predations... are much deeper than you can imagine.

After Forest Galante published his video on the Animal Planet program, this study was published HERE.

I understand that you would like to provide first-hand information, but there are natural checks and balances in situations that require a lot of caution and little passion.

A few years after the disappearance of the last western black rhinos (Diceros bicornis longipes) in Cameroon, a team went there to map and, unbelievably, clues were forged by the hired trackers themselves, to perpetuate the idea that some individuals were still in this landscape. Each iconic large animal that has disappeared has a complex network of stories that always bring them back. Reply