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Why tiger has 9 subspecies not 1?

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Why tiger has 9 subspecies not 1?

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Shocked  05-25-2017, 10:13 AM ( This post was last modified: 05-25-2017, 12:08 PM by Rishi )

(05-25-2017, 02:47 AM)tigerluver Wrote: ...r hand (such as this one), olde...

How do i tag links like ^^that??..

@P.T.Sondaica Then again science lets everything be debatable..no matter whoever says it. 

Siberians, Bengals, Sumatrans are easily distinguishable even by a layman.
IndoChinese & Malayan..not so much (they weren't even differentiated a few years ago).

Caspian & Siberians were later found to be genetically same & not seperate subspecies, inspite of being visibly different, like the Sundarban & (probably) Bhutanese populations with the rest of Bengal tigers.

Contagious populations like Bengal-IndoChinese & IndoChinese-Malayan merge into each other with no distinctive boundary. Maybe someday Amoys & Amurs did so as well.

Large sprawling populations like Bengals show minor genetic variations, like the average size of India tigers tends to reduce from North to Central to South.
Maybe Caspian, Russian & Korean tigers were similarly related.

Bottomline, it's complicated...& way too complex to be described perfectly.
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RE: Why - Rishi - 05-13-2017, 05:08 PM
RE: Why - P.T.Sondaica - 05-13-2017, 06:22 PM
RE: Why - Rishi - 05-13-2017, 07:36 PM
RE: Why - brotherbear - 05-13-2017, 07:20 PM
RE: Why - Rishi - 05-13-2017, 07:35 PM
RE: Why tiger has 9 subspecies not 1? - Rishi - 05-25-2017, 10:13 AM



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