ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

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The Caspian tiger was no joke: 

A) Iran: 

Early 1940's: http://www.tigers.ca/Foundation%20overview/caspian2.htm 

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1912, this website also has other information, including on the Singaporean tiger: http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showthrea...age=3&vc=1 

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B) Caucasus: 

Heptner and Sludskiy quoted Konstanin Satunin as saying that there was a huge Trans-Caucasian tiger with long fur and appearing "no smaller than a common Tuzemna horse", from Prishibinsk (present-day Göytəpə in Azerbaijan), Pages 141–144: 

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C) Central Asia: 

Karakalpakstan, currently an autonomous republic in Uzbekistan: http://around-karakalpakstan.blogspot.com/2013/11/ 

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These Caspian tigers look good enough to be rivals for this Amur tiger from the Primorye region: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/books...ine-t.html

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It would moreover be helpful if we could have measurements for museum specimen, unless Vratislav Mazák (https://web.archive.org/web/201203091255...1-0001.pdf) took care of that already? 

Medical College in Baku, Azerbaijan: http://www.tigers.ca/Foundation%20overview/caspian2.htm

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Persian tiger in the Georgian National Museum: http://kavehfarrokh.com/heritage/the-las...n-georgia/, http://museum.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&s...nfo_id=847 

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Also, check this out (https://wwf.ru/upload/iblock/d6d/atacoll...ll_eng.pdf), it gives surprising dates as to when people saw Caspian tigers in different parts of their range, long after the date of extinction given by this report (https://www.felineconservation.org/uploa...ersion.pdf), which nevertheless provides an interesting insight as to what people did for the Caspian tiger before 1970. Reply