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(12-04-2018, 01:44 PM)Sanju Wrote: The late Pleistocene fauna of the Ratnapura area also included a now-extinct hippopotamus, Hexaprotodon sinhaleyus and rhinoceroses, Rhinoceros sinhaleyus and R. kagavena (see P. Deraniyagala,1963; S. Deraniyagala, 1992). Teeth of R. sinhaleyus (= R. sondaicus: see Laurie et al., 1983), from Adavatta, Lunugalaearliest direct evidence of modern humans in Sri Lanka dates to ca. 37,000 ybp (S. Deraniyagala, 2004).
I am worried that most of the sources are Dereniyagala, some how I don't trusth him to much (I am biased toward Mazák in the perception of this person).
I want to clarify, I am not against the idea that tigers do lived in Sri Lanka, for the contrary, I will like to see a better study in the single phalanx like DNA in order to get a better conclusion. The Alaska "tigers" is the best example (now we know they were not tigers at all), also the many morphological studies made on the cave "lions" and at the end they are not even lions!
With more evidence, it will be easier to accept the idea of tigers in Sri Lanka and will be interesting the study the reasons why it got extinct.
Sri-Lanka(n)/Ceylon Lion, Ceylon (Bengal) Tiger & Ceylon (Asiatic) Cheetah
