The Caspian Tiger (Panthera tigris virgata)

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Unknown date of extinction

I read somewhere that when they initially thought that this tiger was extinct by the 1950's (when it apparently became extinct in Iran), they didn't know that there were tigers in Anatolia (Asian Turkey), and the last reported sighting there was by locals and a military officer in 2001, according to this! http://www1.nina.no/lcie_new/pdf/6350122...df#page=15

That isn't the only document with claims of Caspian tigers right into this century. World Wildlife Fund mentions the case of Sergei Mikhailichenko, who alleged seeing a tigress and cubs in the reeds' bushes near Lake Balkhash in eastern Kazakhstan in 2003! https://wwf.ru/upload/iblock/d6d/atacoll...df#page=15

Otherwise, the last known case of the Caspian tiger was of a tiger sighted in the southern part of the Babatag Mountains on the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan in 1998 (page 5; note that this is one of those URL's that don't show you information on the internet, but download files onto your computer or device): https://web.archive.org/web/201610220651..._study.pdf

  tiger_pre-feasibility_study.pdf (Size: 4.96 MB / Downloads: 1)

To make things more interesting, the Zanzibar leopard (Panthera pardus adersi or Panthera pardus pardus) was thought to be extinct by 2002, but then in the summer of 2018, a leopard was seen in the jungle of Unguja (the largest island of the Zanzibari archipelago)! https://www.academia.edu/694088/Updating..._specimens, https://www.insideedition.com/zanzibar-l...inct-43962

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