12-17-2008, 11:04 PM
>I so love tigers, yet their numbers are so low. It makes me sick.
That's true id you consider extinct low - for certain subspecies. It's appalling.
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Three tiger subspecies are considered to have become extinct in the past 60 years.
The Caspian tiger, Panthera tigris virgata, once ranged in Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Mongolia, and the Central Asiatic area of Russia and probably went extinct in the 1950s.
The Javan tiger, Panthera tigris sondaica, formerly ranged on the Indonesian island of Java and was last seen in 1972.
The Bali tiger, Panthera tigris balica, once lived on Bali, where the last tiger was believed to have been killed in 1947.
That's true id you consider extinct low - for certain subspecies. It's appalling.
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Three tiger subspecies are considered to have become extinct in the past 60 years.
The Caspian tiger, Panthera tigris virgata, once ranged in Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Mongolia, and the Central Asiatic area of Russia and probably went extinct in the 1950s.
The Javan tiger, Panthera tigris sondaica, formerly ranged on the Indonesian island of Java and was last seen in 1972.
The Bali tiger, Panthera tigris balica, once lived on Bali, where the last tiger was believed to have been killed in 1947.