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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]
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, 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
The Caspian tiger used to occur along the river's banks. [33] After its extirpation, the Darya's delta was suggested as a potential site for the introduction of its closest surviving relative, the Siberian tiger. A feasibility study was initiated to investigate if the area is suitable and if such an initiative would receive support from ...
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]
The Javan tiger was a Panthera tigris sondaica population native to the Indonesian island of Java.It was one of the three tiger populations that colonized the Sunda Islands during the last glacial period 110,000–12,000 years ago.
Closely related to the Caspian tiger is the extant Amur tiger, which has the taxonomic name Panthera tigris altaica. [9] The wisent was present in the Altai mountains until the Middle Ages, perhaps even until the 18th century. Today, there is a small herd in a nursery in the Altai Republic. [10]
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]