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

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The Siberian tiger, Caspian tiger, and South China tiger are the most interesting subspecies. Especially the Caspian and South China tiger since we don't know anything about them in wild and they distributed in wild range with variety nature environments.


My Chinese friedn translated this
This tiger was killed on 8/13/1965 near Zhangjiajige National Forest Park (I think Pokemon: Jirachi Wish Make and famous blue color alien movies were based on here)
It was a huge male South China tiger: Total length of 290 cm long, 143 cm high (shoulder was definitely wrong measurement), and 175 kg. He was the same weight as today's male Siberian tiger in wild.

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I think South China tiger's morphology and size were very different in each provinces of China. 


Sichuan, Yunnan, ...etc tigers in these areas were generally smaller and athletically built since there's many steep mountain in these area.

Jiangsu, Hanam, Shandong, Shanxi..etc. These areas have a lot of plain. Tiger was probably different than Sichuan  (tiger was probably a lot different than majority known South China tiger since this is northern northern provinces)


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