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Tigers Could Roam Again in Central Asia


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Caspian tigers, some of the largest cats that ever lived - up to 10 feet long and weighing more than 300 pounds - met a grim end in the middle of the 20th century.

Until the mid-1960s when they were designated as extinct, they ranged from modern-day Turkey through much of Central Asia, including Iran and Iraq, to northwestern China. The reasons for their extermination are many: poisoning and trapping were promoted by bounties paid in the former Soviet Union until the 1930s; irrigation projects during the Soviet era destroyed the tugay woodlands (a riparian and coastal ecosystem of trees, shrubs and wetlands) and reed thickets that were critical tiger habitat; and the cats' prey disappeared as the riparian habitat vanished.

But there is a chance that tigers - using a subspecies that is nearly identical, genetically, to the extinct Caspian - could be restored to Central Asia.

http://www.esf.edu/communications/view.asp?newsID=5645

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They'll need to reproduce Tiger tanks to put them in if they're going to roam "modern-day Turkey through much of Central Asia, including Iran and Iraq, to northwestern China."  I reckon.

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