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We know that tigers and lions have been a neighbours and coexisted for thousands of years in India. But there is one other vast country in Asia where these two mega-predators also coexisted - Iran, called historically "Persia". Maps of distribution of Persian lions are quite general and a bit fogy, but here is a map of the distribution of Caspian tiger:





http://www.catsg.org/fileadmin/fileshari...n_Iran.pdf

As we can see the range of Caspian tiger included primary the northern part of Iran, more specially wet woody slopes of Alborz mountain elevated to more than 5000 m and covered by lush oak forests. Other parts of the Iran are much drier and covered by steppes, semi-deserts and should had been a primary habitat of the Persian lion. Somewhere in the north, probably on the general latitude of Teheran these two mega-cats should have met each other. Below is a rock barelef from 19th century Qajar dynasty near Teheran depicting the king hunting lion:




So, Persian lion and Caspian tiger were neighbours in Iran, and probably in the areas with mixed vegetation they somehow coexisted.

@BorneanTiger , @Sanju do you have a precise detailed map of the former range of Asiatic lion in Iran in order to compare it with the map of the Caspian tiger? The maps I saw in internet are quite general and probably not very correct. By the way in this scientific article you can find a wonderful photos of skins of Caspian tigers in Teheran Natural museum and a info about a Caspian in the Moscow zoo you asked me last year:

http://www.catsg.org/fileadmin/fileshari...n_Iran.pdf

To start off with, the Caucasian or Persian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana as per the 2017 revision of subspecies of the Cat Specialist Group, Pages 73–75: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...sAllowed=y, synonyms: Panthera pardus ciscaucasia and Panthera pardus saxicolor) is present in Ciscaucasia or North Caucasus, which is in European Russia, meaning that there are leopards in Europe! http://www.catsg.org/fileadmin/fileshari...ucasus.pdf, http://assets.panda.org/downloads/caucas...tegy_1.pdf

Caucasian leopard in the reintroduction center in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, North Caucasus, European Russia. Credit: The National Geographic: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016...ls-russia/

Post whatever information is available on this big cat. We can answer questions like.... 

1. What was on the menu? 

2. What were it's rivals? 

3. Was it social? 

4. Was there any sexual dimorphism? (if social, this can give an insight as to how the social structure probably worked) 

5. What was the estimated weight? 

I'll answer 3., they did coexist with Adcrocuta  hyenas, which likely lived in clans, so a social system would have been helpful in defending kills, territory, cubs, and mates.

Era um morto espécime em 1990 no Brasil o que seria seu tamanho e peso?

Feral and Invasive Tigers of Texas and Florida

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Is this legit, or is it a hoax. Lots of pigs and deer to feed a tiger in this area..... I wouldn't be surprised, based on how many of these exotics exist on private land and ranches in Texas. A was only a matter of time before one got, or was set, loose. Maybe along with the Deer and pigs or feral hogs the Tiger could also eat the drug dealers in the area.

The whole 'more tigers in Texas than in the wild' is a game of telephone with data over a decade out of date. It’d be great if we could get some “American Tigers”, aka the Jaguar, hanging back around the Rip Grande. Wanhsien/Amur Tiger remains have been found across Beringia.


Looks like a tiger from kaziranga

https://www.whyanimalsdothething.com/mor...v8kS9t_1Do

https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/v...9aca9e3429

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas...FJvwJnvfX8

Can't see a thread about the Persian lion, so here it is. 

Persian lion returns to Iran after 80 years:

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/260794267/persian-lion-returns-to-iran-after-80-years

I was watching an episode from Animalogic on tigers, and the host says that unlike other cats, tigers have pretty good endurance which allows them to chase prey longer than other cats. I always thought tigers had terrible endurance. Is what this person says true? 

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