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They tested 2 tigers out of thousands
"The big question is: where did the alien genes come from? The two tigers from Dudhwa could be the offspring of Tara, a tigress controversially released into the wilderness by wildlife enthusiast Billy Arjan Singh in the '70s"
But we still don'tknow how different Amur and Bengals really are, they have adapted to different climates and terrain, but both are pretty much identical in body size and such a small # with very little Amur genetics could most likely be stomped out over the generations and revert back to pure Bengal.
Like the article states,
"There are some theories about the influx of foreign genes (see box). While the Himalayas effectively squashes the probability of tigers from India crossing over to China or Russia, it is possible that an Indian tiger mated with a Chinese tiger along the Myanmar tract. The Chinese tiger could, in turn, have inherited genes from a Siberian parent. Theoretically, tigers of unknown lineage which have escaped from zoos and circuses could also be the source of the Siberian genes."
The chances of that occuring are miniscule and if it did, its still a natural occurance outside of escaped zoo or circus tigers which to my knowledge none have ever lasted very long after escaping and if they did survive, their genes have already been in bengals for 100s of years.
DNA samples of Bengal tigers polluted by genes of the Siberian Tiger
