ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[peter]

PANTHERA TIGRIS AMOYENSIS - C

c1 - Paper about rewilding the South China tiger

I found this some time ago. Although it has no date, it was published after 2010. It's a nice summary about the situation in, say, 2010-2012. Although the remaining 100 captive South China tigers feature, the authors wrote that it is possible that some wild tigers still exist. Another Chinese biologist, about 10 years ago, wrote he was sure China still had a few wild tigers. Will get back to that one.

Here's the paper ('Rewilding the South China Tiger') from 'Save China's Tigers'. Yamaguchi was involved:      
 

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c2 - Photograph of a South China tiger shot in 1956

This photograph was recently posted in this thread by 'Betty'. I'm not sure, but I thought I saw 1956.

Although V. Mazak's ('Der Tiger', 1983) information on the size of the South China tiger seems quite accurate, I found reports I consider reliable about male tigers exceeding the upper limit of Mazak's evaluation (386 pounds or 175 kg.). The tiger in the photograph below could have been quite close:
   

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