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06-26-2014, 07:32 PM( This post was last modified: 06-26-2014, 09:02 PM by GrizzlyClaws )
Personally, i think the Amur tiger was largely descended from the Caspian tiger, maybe with some minor mixture from the northern Wanhsien tiger.
Since the individual like Baikal reminds me that the genome of the extinct giant Wanhsien tiger might have survived in the gene pool of the modern Amur tiger population.
The modern mainland tigers were evolved from the Wanhsien tiger population of the southwest China, so this means they could evolve from a population with the smaller size? And the mixture with the remaining larger sized Wanhsien tiger has made some modern tigers to be enormous.