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

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(05-02-2019, 07:48 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:

(05-02-2019, 02:25 AM)Sanju Wrote:

(04-28-2019, 12:37 AM)Pckts Wrote: Cont'd

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Close to 11' ft indian monster

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~ Korean Tiger Hunting, 1922, photographed by Ando Kimio. According to the statistics of the Governor-General of Korea, the number of Chosŏn tigers slaughtered during the period of Japanese occupation was around 141. This tiger is arguably the last male tiger to have been photographed, on October 2, 1922, in Gyŏngju, Mt. Daedŏk, in Kyŏngsangbukto province. The tiger skin was dedicated to the Imperial House of Japan. ~

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All those beautiful tigers..
Sorrow and rage piercing me.

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A good news is that now even Wikipedia is taking the view about there being 6 subspecies more seriously (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger#Subspecies), in light of the genetic study in 2018 (https://www.cell.com/current-biology/ful...all%3Dtrue), so hopefully, people don't just listen to the Cat Specialist Group's assertion in 2017 about there being only 2 subspecies (https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...sAllowed=y).

I find it more interesting, that when you look WWF site(s), vast majority and their main site have 6 subspecies even today there. I wonder if they wait for something or are they just lazy to update :) Could be both :) But then again not all biologists agree with cat specialist group in this matter so some instance can wait and see still how discussion and studies continue. One interesting thing would be to know has it had any influence for instance to Amur tiger conservation. Somehow I have this feeling, that not.

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