DNA samples of Bengal tigers polluted by genes of the Siberian Tiger

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Agree, and I most add more. South China tiger DNA analyzed by Dr Luo and her team found that in fact, it had a primitive origin, probably the true original Holocene tiger and direct descendent of the Wanhsien tiger. Remember also that, according with our theory, the surviving population of North Indochina tigers, after the Toba eruption, were in fact Panthera tigris acutidens, the original mainland tiger, so the genes of this large subspecies are still living in all modern tigers.

So, in this case, what we have now is just a group of modern "changes" between populations, just like between humans. Check how different are the skulls of humans from Europe to those of Africa, America or those from Australia, but still we ALL are Homo sapiens. The more I read, the more I am agree with Dr Kitchener in this point: it seems that there is only one mainland tiger subspecies with clinal differences and the modern "subspecies", identified by few genetic differences are just the blame of humanity, not a true differentiation caused by the nature.

Finally on the Panthera youngi issue, Dr Herrigton classified it as "leo", and all modern books quote him, but the BIG problem is that just this study was made, and clearly ignore the results from Dr Hooijer, which clearly clasify it as "tigris" or at least "tigris like". In one occasion I hypothesized that probably Panthera youngi was the last descendent of the Panthera zdansky, and now I see that @tigerluver and you are following the same way. It seems plausible, after all, ALL the great cats disappeared from the area, except the tiger and the leopard (although this last one had a latter arrival, from Africa).



 

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