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07-05-2015, 11:31 AM( This post was last modified: 07-05-2015, 11:39 AM by GrizzlyClaws )
(07-05-2015, 11:26 AM)'tigerluver' Wrote:
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It looks like studies pretty agree on tiger phylogeny. Genetically, the South China tiger is the most different from the Amur-Caspian-Indochinese forms. I'm assuming P. t. amoyensis could breed with the other subspecies regardless. What do you think has happened here?
Perhaps this could indicate that the South China tiger is not as "mixed" as other tigers.
And other mainland tigers might have heavily mixed with the Sunda tiger, thus gradually losing the archaic features from their Wanhsien ancestor.