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[Spalea]

(10-26-2018, 10:02 PM)Pckts Wrote:

(10-26-2018, 04:24 PM)Spalea Wrote: Conclusion: "all the tigers don't look alike" ! Hence the necessity to respect their singularities and to not cross different subspecies.

Unfortunately I'm not well versed in genomes, but my understanding is that all Tigers still came from one species and it was the effect of Climate and Terrain that caused certain subspecies splits. So if that is the case, than it doesn't matter if we recognize a subspecies split or not, you can take any Tiger now and breed it in any location Tigers are found and eventually that species will become a "Sumatran" or "Bengal" or "Amur" etc. depending on where it lives. I know "subspecies" matter when discussing size, prey preference or personality, but I'm not sure it matters for conservation.

I don't know, either. I'm simply quite amazed to see how we can reconstitute the story of an animal specy through the times and to learn that the tiger specy was already on the verge on extinction 110.000 years ago (weak genetic diversity). Perhaps this big cat is a very tough specy. I hope it is of good omen as concerns the future. Reply