Tigers of the High Himalayas

[Ashutosh]

Oh, I almost forgot to post that. I did some digging up on those DNA results, and the genetic markers all pointed to them being Royal Bengal Tiger or Panthera Tigris tigris if you will. But, the interesting distinction came in further sequencing as they did not match upto any genetic markers from subpopulations of Bengal tigers anywhere. Their closest relatives were Tigers of Eastern India and flood plains (but not kaziranga). And, even more interestingly, their closest marker came from a subpopulation in Nagarhole National park of Western Ghats landscape (I could have read the genome tree incorrectly, so apologies). Reply