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

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(03-22-2019, 09:59 AM)Rishi Wrote: It's good enough to be the first independent article on the new Premier Section if you permit.

If is regarding the subspecies issue, I am agree.

There is plenti of information about tigers and lions focused in subspecies, and altough most of the information suggest the existance of only two subspecies for each of them, I also suggested that the human influence in the development of this animals did produced more "subspecies", that is a "man-made" effect but something that we can't ignore under the new view of tiger and lion conservation.

@tigerluver is right, the concepts of "species" and "subspeceis" are something that is not 100% natural and may be influenced by humans. Like I said, before humans there was not any natural barrier for the dispersal of the tiger, appart from the highest himalayan mountains and the kush region at the north of India/Pakistan region in mainland. So the concept of two subspecies is well funded but now at 2019 the history is different and there are many more variables, more barriers and the genetic base is biased toward the specimens that managed to addapt to the new antrophogenic environment. Heavy Amur tigers no longer exist (as far we know), the large Malayan tigers are the same case, so all these new adaptations of the tigers (and lions) to the few habitat available had changed them more than we think. Reply