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

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New findings on the phylogeny of the Javan and Bali tigers, see attached. 

The latter conclusion that, "The close phylogenetic relationship among Sunda tiger subspecies suggests either recent colonization across the islands, or else a once continuous tiger population that had subsequently isolated into different island subspecies." supports my theory that there used to be a large pandemic population of tigers spread from China to the Sunda shelf (much above water at the time) which were not subspeciated. It's interesting and encouraging to see genetic evidence support a claim made only on scant fossil record, goes to show little evidence is still significant evidence. 
 

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