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01-13-2018, 11:29 AM( This post was last modified: 01-13-2018, 11:30 AM by GrizzlyClaws )
There were indeed other tiger population in the northeast part of Asia prior the colonization of the Caspian tiger.
Now the question is that the modern Amur tigers are simply the pure descendant of the Caspian tigers, or simply the hybrid descendants of the late arrived Caspian tigers and the residual population of the Wanhsien tigers? Although the majority of the Amur tigers might have the Y-DNA and mtDNA of the Caspian tigers, but autosomally, they could still be somewhat influenced by the residual Wanhsien tigers, that's why they don't look identical to the original Caspian tigers, just like the modern humans in Europe who had been autosomally affected by the Neanderthals, who don't look identical to the original humans from Africa.
BTW, those theories are still not based the empirical evidence, but rather from my armchair opinion, but I am expecting they could manage to discover something later that matches my opinion.