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The Caspian tiger was a Panthera tigris tigris population native to eastern Turkey, northern Iran, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus around the Caspian Sea, Central Asia to northern Afghanistan and the Xinjiang region in western China. [1]
Genetic studies have revealed that Siberian and Caspian tigers are descended from the tiger population that colonized Central Asia about 10,000 years ago. [1] After the end of the last ice age, the common ancestor of Siberian and Caspian Tiger migrated through the path which later became the silk route path, to colonise the steppes and Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forest.
A feasibility study was initiated to investigate if the area is suitable and if such an initiative would receive support from relevant decision makers. A viable tiger population of about 100 animals would require at least 5,000 km 2 (1,900 sq mi) of large tracts of contiguous habitat with rich prey populations. Such habitat is not presently ...
No, it is illegal for individuals to own, trade or sell tigers and other dangerous wild animals in Ohio since Gov. John Kasich signed Senate Bill 310 in 2012, regulating the possession of ...
While only 3,000 tigers inhabit forests in Russia and Asia, the U.S. has as many as an estimated 5,000 tigers kept captive in small cages. US pet tiger population outnumbers rest of world's wild ...
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The Caspian tiger used to occur in the northern region around the Caspian Sea, and in the Trans-Caucasian and Turkestani regions of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, before 1960. The last tiger in Iran was reportedly sighted in Golestan National Park in 1958. [11] [4] [2]