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

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That logic is absolutely wrong, and that's why I view biologists brought up/published single species are extremely ignorant. They just think one stuff and something that is right front of them, but they can never think something that is far away. That's why I said they should never allow to work on tigers in Asia since they will ruining important evolutionary process caused naturally since thousands years ago. It was exactly like when many physicists living in the early 1900s were against with Einstein's special relatives and gravity waves. Or many physicists attacked on Boltzmann during the mid and late 1800s since they never believed his ideas on atom and thermodynamics. Now, we already know Einstein and Boltzmann were correct. I've seen this from Korean biologists working on reintroducing moon bear since past 20 years. Distance of South Korea to Caucaus mountain vs Himalaya to southern India? Your conclusion is no different than Bengal tigers living in Sundarbans or rainforest in western Myanmar are treated as the same subspecies as Malayan tiger living in rainforest or swamp in the Malayan Peninsula.
I know you kindly provide info/photo on Caspian tigers, but I already know and seen photo, specimen, and morphology difference of Caspian tigers in different part of Asia long before someone post in wildfact. The same for Bengal tigers in different parts of habitats. And why did you brought up subspecies distinguish on Caspian tiger vs Bengal tiger in Sundarban and Himalaya to comparing Siberian tiger with Caspian tiger? We all already know Caspian tiger and Bengal tigers were far away from each other. That explanation is absolutely irrelevant. You can't compare any other tiger subspecies to Caspian tigers beside Siberian tigers. You also need to understand that tigers in India are mostly staying in the same place (isolated from long time) unlike the past due to human activity.
And when I read that paper again, those biologists clearly mentioned they did not tested Caspian tigers from the westernmost part of Asia.

I didn't said copy and paste photos and statements from paper. Explain it to me about haploid or mtDNA genes (cytb, ND2, ND5 and ND6), and other things in that paper that how does it shows tiger subspecies.. You studied and understand genomic/genetic. So explain it to me how does it shows they can be the same or different subspecies. You don't have to since you can believe whatever you want. Until 3-4 years ago, biologists believed lion and jaguar are the most closely related species. However, recent paper published concluded that leopard is actually most closely related to lion.. We will never know until the future. We don't really know everything on genomics, and this field is one of the fastest changing/studying area in biology. We should never conclude anything from our knowledge yet unlike like biologists brought up all tigers in mainland Asia are the same.
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RE: ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris) - Greatearth - 06-24-2019, 01:14 AM
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RE: Tiger Data Bank - Apollo - 07-28-2014, 10:02 PM
RE: Tiger Data Bank - Apollo - 07-29-2014, 12:56 AM
RE: Tiger Data Bank - peter - 07-29-2014, 07:05 AM
Tiger recycling bin - Roflcopters - 09-04-2014, 01:36 AM
RE: Tiger recycling bin - Pckts - 09-04-2014, 02:22 AM
RE: Tiger recycling bin - Roflcopters - 09-05-2014, 01:01 AM
RE: Tiger Data Bank - Apollo - 11-15-2014, 10:07 PM
RE: Tiger Data Bank - Apollo - 11-15-2014, 10:57 PM
RE: Tiger Data Bank - Apollo - 11-15-2014, 11:33 PM
RE: Tiger Data Bank - Apollo - 02-19-2015, 11:25 PM
RE: Tiger Data Bank - GuateGojira - 02-23-2015, 11:36 AM
Status of tigers in India - Shardul - 12-20-2015, 03:23 PM
RE: Tiger Directory - Diamir2 - 10-03-2016, 04:27 AM
RE: Tiger Directory - peter - 10-03-2016, 06:22 AM
Genetics of all tiger subspecies - parvez - 07-15-2017, 01:08 PM
RE: Tiger Predation - peter - 11-11-2017, 08:08 AM
RE: Man-eaters - Wolverine - 12-03-2017, 11:30 AM
RE: Man-eaters - peter - 12-04-2017, 09:44 AM
RE: Tigers of Central India - Wolverine - 04-13-2018, 01:17 AM
RE: Tigers of Central India - qstxyz - 04-13-2018, 08:34 PM
RE: Size comparisons - peter - 07-16-2019, 05:28 AM
RE: Amur Tigers - peter - 05-20-2021, 07:13 AM
RE: Amur Tigers - Nyers - 05-21-2021, 08:02 PM
RE: Amur Tigers - peter - 05-22-2021, 08:09 AM
RE: Amur Tigers - GuateGojira - 04-06-2022, 12:59 AM
RE: Amur Tigers - tigerluver - 04-06-2022, 01:08 AM
RE: Amur Tigers - tigerluver - 04-06-2022, 09:08 AM
RE: Amur Tigers - tigerluver - 04-06-2022, 11:30 PM
RE: Amur Tigers - peter - 04-08-2022, 07:27 AM



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