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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]
Hyrcania (/ h ər ˈ k eɪ n i ə /; Greek: Ὑρκανία Hyrkanía, [1] Old Persian: 𐎺𐎼𐎣𐎠𐎴 Varkâna, [2] Middle Persian: 𐭢𐭥𐭫𐭢𐭠𐭭 Gurgān, Akkadian: Urqananu) [2] is a historical region composed of the land south-east of the Caspian Sea in modern-day Iran and Turkmenistan, bound in the south by the Alborz mountain range and the Kopet Dag in the east.
The Hyrcanian forests are thought to have served as a refugium for certain species during changing climatic conditions. The Iranian edible dormouse ( Glis persicus ) is an endemic of this ecoregion, and is thought to have evolved when mid- Miocene climatic change led to the fragmentation of the ancestral Glis population, with one such ...
The Caspian tiger, also called Hyrcanian tiger was found in Azerbaijan until the late 1950s. But it became extinct over 40 years ago. But it became extinct over 40 years ago. Scientific investigation in this field proved that the Caspian Tiger and the Siberian Tiger are distinguished by only one genetic code letter.
The area is part of the Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests ecoregion. [4] The Caspian tiger used to occur in the Talysh Mountains. [5] Gallery. See also.
The Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests' ecoregion, an area of lush lowland and montane forests (subtropical and temperate rainforests) that partially cover the Lankaran Lowland. The Caspian tiger , which used to occur in this area.
The Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests ecoregion in northern Iran contains a jungle in the form of a rainforest which stretches from the east in the Khorasan province to the west in the Ardabil Province, covering the other provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, and Golestan.
Hyrcanian region (Caspian) which forms the green belt of the north side of the country. 2. The region of Iran and Turan, which are mainly scattered in the center of Iran. 3. Zagros region, which mainly contains oak forests in the west of the country. 4. The Persian Gulf region, which is scattered in the southern coastal belt. 5.