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

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BorneanTiger
Sorry, but I have no idea what is your conclusion. So what is your conclusion?
If you can read gene sequence (1st photo) and haplotype/mtDNA (2nd photo), then explain it to me precisely about those two pictures that how does it defines tiger subspecies.

And again, where did samples on Caspian tiger samples came from for their research? Don't tell me if those Caspian tiger samples are from central part of Asia. If Malayan tiger is separate species from Indochinese tiger, then how is it possible for you to believe Caspian tiger lived in westernmost of Asia can be the same as Siberian tiger lived in southern part of the Korean Peninsula?
I even seen worse idiotic biologist from the Texas A&M are saying like, "From our research, we discovered that every big cats were evolved from mixed each other throughout the history." Can you believe that now? That's why I am always having doubt on genetic opinion on species vs subspecies sometimes, especially if it is about big cats or other large mammals. They are just wasting grant money, including ones who published papers on single tiger species. They should better study on how to increase genetic variations from genetic bottleneck.

Yes, Siberian tiger and Caspian tiger are closely related subspecies. I don't think it won't cause problem to releasing Siberian tigers into Caspian tiger range map.
However, I can never agree that those two were the same subspecies unless they are referring to Siberian tigers lived in northern part of their range and Caspian tiger lived in the central Asia. Reply