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ASK TIGER INBREED GENETIC

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04-09-2018, 03:30 PM ( This post was last modified: 04-10-2018, 08:59 AM by Rishi )

Numbers didn't plummet that much for genetic quality to degrade.

When conservation started India had about 1500 tigers, thinly spread over a much larger area of wilderness than today. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1762/20130496


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But, most forests we spotted with villages & the tiger density was much lower even in today's tiger reserves!
20 tigers in a single forest was a pretty high number back then... It still is in the reserves where indigenous tribal people live today!

With creation of Tiger Reserves the tigers (or their progeny) quickly moved to those inviolate pockets & that brought together a wide variety of genes.
(It may be one of the reasons for rise in average size of Indian tigers in the last half century. My personal view. I doubt it can be proved...)

Central India & Terai, which saw most of those huntings, still has fairly well connectivity.
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ASK TIGER INBREED GENETIC - P.T.Sondaica - 04-07-2018, 09:38 PM
RE: ASK TIGER INBREED GENETIC - Rishi - 04-09-2018, 03:30 PM
RE: ASK TIGER INBREED GENETIC - Rishi - 04-09-2018, 04:37 PM
RE: ASK TIGER INBREED GENETIC - Rishi - 04-09-2018, 04:48 PM
RE: ASK TIGER INBREED GENETIC - Rishi - 04-09-2018, 05:18 PM
RE: ASK TIGER INBREED GENETIC - Rishi - 04-09-2018, 06:27 PM
RE: ASK TIGER INBREED GENETIC - parvez - 04-09-2018, 08:28 PM
RE: ASK TIGER INBREED GENETIC - Rishi - 04-09-2018, 08:52 PM
RE: ASK TIGER INBREED GENETIC - parvez - 04-09-2018, 09:35 PM



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