Tigers Dwindling: Just Six Sub-species Remain
Six different sub-species of tigers exist today, scientists confirmed recently, amid hopes the findings will boost efforts to save the fewer than 4,000 free-range big cats that remain in the world, said the report in the journal Current Biology.
Highlights of the Report
- The six include the Bengal tiger, Amur tiger, South China tiger, Sumatran tiger, Indochinese tiger and Malayan tiger.
- Three other tiger subspecies have already gone extinct: the Caspian, Javan and Bali tigers.
- Researchers analysed the complete genomes of 32 tiger specimens in order to confirm they fall into six genetically distinct groups.
- Researchers found very little evidence of ....
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