Siberian tigers in Alaska?

[Abramelin]

I have often thought that to save the Siberian tiger from extinction a large group of them could be moved to Alaska because it's a very similar habitat, and less (??) risk from being hunted to extinction.

What I didn't know is that once there actually lived tigers in Alaska:

*Northern tigers are not a sub species.

The two minor sub species are :

Indonesian tigers (Panthera tigris sundaïca) isolated from congeners during the wet holocene optimum (9000 6000 years BP)

Caspian tigers (Panthera tigris virgata) isolated from their congeners during the post neolothic arid period (6000 3000 years BP).

They are simply a giant variety of major pool, like prehistoric eurasian lions (Panthera leo spelea), were a giant variety of the original african pool (Panthera leo leo).

It is possible that Alaskan tigers would have been a supergiant variety of their eurasian congeners, like beringian lions (Panthera leo atrox) were a supergiant variety of their eurasian congeners.

http://www.adventure-tigers.com/d-tigers-siberia.htm

Tigers are uncommon in the fossil record. The distinct fossils of tigers were discovered in Pleistocene deposits – mostly in Asia. Nevertheless, tiger fossils 100,000 years old have been found in Alaska. Possibly because of a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska during the ice ages, this Alaskan tiger might be a North American population of Siberian tiger. In addition, some scientists have discovered similarities between tiger bones and those of the American lion, an extinct big cat that dominated much of North America as recently as 10,000 years ago. Some have used these observations to conclude that the American lion was a New World tiger species.

http://www.solarnavigator.net/animal_kingdom/mammals/tigers.htm

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Edited September 11, 2011 by Abramelin

[Abramelin]

Is it possible to introduce Siberian Tigers into Alaska?

Answer:

Yes it is possible to release Siberian Tigers into Alaska because the climate and terrain of Alaska is almost identical to Russia. Alaska has some of the same animals such as Brown Bears and Siberian Tigers would have many animals to hunt such as Mountain Goat and Moose, Caribou, Roosevelt Elk, Dall Sheep, American Bison, Sitka Black-tailed Deer and other small game like Hares and many other animals that live in Alaska. Alaska has many national state parks such as Denali National park. Release Siberian Tigers in places like Denali National Park where there are thousands of square miles of wilderness to roam and hunt and there are no people. I hope to see one day thousands of Siberian Tigers back in the wild where they belong with no threat of becoming extinct. This would be good because loggers in Russia are taking forests away from the Siberian Tigers' habitat. We in the USA could better protect the Siberian Tigers if released into Alaska's Wild. I know that Siberian Tigers are not native to Alaska but neither is the American Bison, and it was released into Alaska with excellent results. I think the same could happen with Siberian Tigers if given a chance. This was written by a person who has a passion for Siberian Tigers and would like not to see them endangered anymore.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_possible_to_introduce_Siberian_Tigers_into_Alaska

[Verneph]

Considering the Alaskan government can't seem to tolerate having wolves within its borders, I can't imagine they'd be too keen on allowing some Tigers to join in.

[Abramelin]

Considering the Alaskan government can't seem to tolerate having wolves within its borders, I can't imagine they'd be too keen on allowing some Tigers to join in.

Yes, I have been thinking of that too, but settling these tigers in a new place appears to be the only real option to save them from extinction.

But I understand of course: people will on avarage not be very happy with a potential man-eater in their neighbourhood.