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

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(11-05-2019, 12:35 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: A slight error in that document "Tigers are naturally absent in ... Borneo". If my namesake tiger became extinct in prehistoric times, like the Ngandong, Wanhsien, Trinil and Longdan tigers, then it's bizarre that Bornean natives revere the tiger in a manner similar as people in places where there are still tigers, like China and India, even if that means keeping skins or teeth of tigers as souvenirs or holy artefacts: https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-tigers-...awan-japan

As it is, Asian natives today wouldn't revere the Ngandong, Wanhsien, Trinil and Longdan tigers in the same way as they would for the Amur and Bengal tigers, would they?

There is no error, tigers are naturally absent in Borneo, they did not live there anymore, based on evidence. In Pleistocene times, they DO lived there but there is no evidence that they survived in "modern" times. Tigers from Ngandong, Wanhsien and Trinil were tigers that lived in Java and China, and we know that tigers still lived there in modern times and in large natural populations. It was the human that caused they extinctions in the wild. There is no difference (apart from size) between the Pleistocene tigers and Holocene tigers, based in the fossils, so there is no comparison, you say "Asian natives today wouldn't revere the Ngandong, Wanhsien, Trinil and Longdan tigers in the same way as they would for the Amur and Bengal tigers" but that do not make sence, those names (Ngandong, Wanhsien, Amur, Bengal) are modern "man-made" names, a tiger will be a tiger for an Asian native.

Finally, the Longdan "tiger" is not a tiger per se, but a very close relative just like a cave "lion" is to a modern true lion. Reply