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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] Until the Middle Ages, it was also present in southern Russia. [2]
Caspin (voiced by Jim Cummings) – Exclusive to the 2011 series, he is a Thunderian based on the Caspian tiger. He serves Javan as his right-hand man in his royal court. When Lion-O and Tygra come across the Tiger Clan's cave, Caspin takes them to meet Javan.
In the 1900s (decade) the Russian government declared that there is no place for tigers in Central Asia and Caucasus. The Russian army was tasked with the extermination of all tigers in the Caspian Sea area so that farmers could move in. It is unknown whether the Caspian tiger is entirely extinct since there are some reports of sightings in ...
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.
† Caspian tiger formerly P. t. virgata (Illiger, 1815) [20] This population occurred from Turkey to around the Caspian Sea. [17] It had bright rusty-red fur with thin and closely spaced brownish stripes, [21] and a broad occipital bone. [11] Genetic analysis revealed that it was closely related to the Siberian tiger. [22] It has been extinct ...
The Caspian tiger used to occur along the upper reaches of Hari-Rud near Herat to the jungles in the lower reaches of the river until the early 1970s. [13] Uncertain is the historical presence of the Asiatic lion in the country, as locality records are not known. [11] It is thought to have been present in southwestern and southern Afghanistan. [14]
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]
Caspian tiger, a Panthera tigris population native Northern Iran and Caucasus; Caspian Airlines, an airline based in Tehran, Iran; Caspian (band), an instrumental post-rock band; Caspian, Michigan, a small city in the United States; USS Caspian, proposed designation for a tug that never actually served in the United States Navy