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06-05-2015, 02:04 AM( This post was last modified: 06-05-2015, 02:21 AM by GrizzlyClaws )
(06-04-2015, 02:47 PM)'Siegfried' Wrote: Wouldn't the introduction of P. tigris amoyensis into India put at risk the concept of subspecies purity?
Historically, the South Chinese tigers were known to share border with other 4 tiger subspecies such as Amur/Bengal/Caspian/Indochinese.
There were also record of the Bengal tiger found in Southwest China, so there was very likely to orchestrate the genetic exchange with the South Chinese tiger that lived nearby.
These so-called subspecies could be very likely being artificial and perhaps only existed after the human interference.
Prior to the human interference, the boundary between the tiger subspecies could be pretty vague, and the subspecies had a lot of genetic exchange with each other. Unlike today, they are all genetically isolated.