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(01-07-2019, 08:47 PM)brotherbear Wrote: I had the idea that tigers originated in a cold climate in China. Tigers in the tropics sometimes appear to be uncomfortably hot and thus spending time soaking in ponds and rivers. Have I been wrong in this assumption?
In fact, it is normally stated that tigers originated from a cold climate for the reason that you explained. However, based in new genetic analysis it seems that the common idea that tiger originated in the north of China/Manchuria it not entirely correct, as it seems that the original steam seems to be from the north of Indochina/south of China region. Other posibility is that the new proposed region was cold but I have not studied the region in the Pleistocene so I am not sure about that.
Whatever happen with the origin of the tiger, it is clear that this is a species tide with woods and probably originated in relatively cold regions.