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

[peter]

ORIGINAL POSTS

Our forum has different departments. There's the forum itself, there's a department for wildlife photographers and there the department for blogs. In the end, it is about quality and, as important, originality. Original photographs, articles, tables and posts, for different reasons, are much appreciated. 


BIG CAT EVOLUTION

In the last two decades in particular, as a result of new techniques, quite many articles on the evolution of big cats have been published by talented and dedicated researchers. As every researcher had a slightly different angle or perspective, the result of their quest, I think, is fascinating.

This post is an original on tiger evolution. It's an attempt to get to a kind of overview and it's based on the effort of the researchers mentioned at the end. As I have to assume mistakes were made in some way or another (typos included), I decided to add a number to every piece of information discussed. Anyone interested is invited to respond or correct mistakes.

The summary was first posted in post post 75. When I saw the scans were below par, I decided to withdraw the post entirely. This, therefore, is a repost of post 75. If you're interested, I would advice to read post 76 as well. That post has two maps offering a bit of insight in tiger distribution about 100.000 years ago. Here we go.

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