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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

an amazing fact


Turanian Tiger, Caspian Tiger, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Scientific American, 1897
Turanian Tiger, Caspian Tiger
Caspian Tigers lived in China, Tajikistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey.  They were hunted for their furs and to protect livestock.  A ban on hunting the Caspian Tiger in the USSR in 1947 followed their greatest destruction in the 1930s.  The last Caspian Tiger reported shot was in 1957

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