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	Forever Tigers - Vanishing Range of the Tiger
		The Caspian race was isolated from other tigers by the Himalayan Mountains, dependent on a thin stock of forest dwelling deer, and ultimately found itself in competition with humans for territory.
		Today only the Sumatran tiger remains, and its continued survival is in doubt, as poaching and habitat encroachment have left it clinging to life with a total population not exceeding 400 animals.
		Tigers in the Snow Introduction and photographs by Maurice Hornocker.
	www.forevertigers.com /range.htm (700 words)

	Recently Extinct Animals - Species Info - Caspian Tiger
		The Caspian tiger is known to have followed the migratory herds of their preferred prey animals, such as the boar.
		Considering that, one to eight tigers were killed each year in Eastern Turkey until the mid 1980s, the tiger that was killed in Uludere was a young individual according to the stripe patterns, the Caspian tiger is likely to have existed in the region at least until the early 1990s.
		The five remaining tiger subspecies are the Bengal tiger Panthera tigris tigris (Linnaeus, 1758), Siberian (Amur) tiger Panthera tigris altaica (Temminck, 1844), Sumatran tiger Panthera tigris sumatrae Pocock, 1829, Indo-Chinese tiger Panthera tigris corbetti Mazak, 1968, and the South China tiger Panthera tigris amoyensis (Hilzheimer, 1905).
	www.petermaas.nl /extinct/speciesinfo/caspiantiger.htm (1789 words)

	Mazandaran - LoveToKnow 1911
		MAZANDARAN, a province of northern Persia, lying between the Caspian Sea and the Elburz range, and bounded E. and W. by the provinces of Astarabad and Gilan respectively, 220 m.
		In the north the Caspian is encircled by the level and swampy lowlands, varying in breadth from io to 30 m., partly under impenetrable jungle, partly under rice, cotton, sugar and other crops.
		This section is fringed northwards by the sandy beach of the Caspian, here almost destitute of natural harbours, and rises somewhat abruptly inland to the second section, comprising the northern slopes and spurs of the Elburz, which approach at some points within 1 or 2 m.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Mazandaran (893 words)

	Tiger - MSN Encarta
		Less than 20 percent of today’s tiger habitat is located in national parks or other protected areas, which means that the majority of the areas where tigers live could be lost to other uses, such as agriculture or urbanization.
		The ideal tiger territory is a large forested area with rich vegetation for cover, plentiful water to drink and cool off in, and abundant deer, swine, and other large mammals to eat.
		The white tigers seen in some zoos are the result of a rare genetic mutation that occurs rarely in the wild.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576290/Tiger.html (1977 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		The Caspian tiger or Persian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) was the westernmost subspecies of tiger, found in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Caucasus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan until it apparently became extinct in the 1970s, though there have been several alleged sightings of the tiger.
		Caspian tigers remained solitary for the most of their lives; they rarely socialized with other tigers outside the mating season.
		The last stronghold of the Caspian tiger in the former Soviet Union was in the Tigrovaya Balka area.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Caspian_tiger (1330 words)

	GreenLeap: Tiger Info (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tigers occupy habitats as diverse as the coniferous, mixed deciduous forests of the Russian Far East to the tropical rain forests, grasslands, and marshes of India and Indonesia.
		Tigers are nocturnal, hunting at night, and their long, stiff whiskers are used as feelers to help maneuver through twigs and branches.
		Tigers are ambush hunters, and require sufficient cover to creep within 10 to 25 yards (10 to 25 m) of their prey.
	www.greenleap.com /area/critters/tigers/info.jsp (1296 words)

	Save The Tiger Fund \| Caspian Tiger (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tigers and their prey, such as Bukhara red deer, roe deer, goitred gazelles and especially wild pigs, had a restricted range in these bands of tugai vegetation and were vulnerable to human disturbance and habitat destruction as these valleys were avenues for agricultural settlement by people.
		Tigers in Central Asia were not usually regarded as a threat to human life and were known to co-exist with human habitation, even close to major towns such as Tashkent.
		Probably the last Caspian tigers seen in the USSR were in the foothills of the Talysh Mountains and the Lenkoran river basin in southeast Azerbaijan near the Caspian Sea in 1964, but these were probably tigers that had migrated from neighbouring Iran.
	www.savethetigerfund.org /Content/NavigationMenu2/Community/GeneralPublic/TigerSubspecies/ExtinctsubspeciesBaliJavanCaspian/CaspianTiger/default.htm (1312 words)

	Salvation Efforts Help Endangered Tiger
		Tigers have always been considered a single species with five subspecies: the South China tiger, the Siberian tiger, the Bengal tiger, the Indochinese tiger and the Sumatran tiger.
		Massive activities were staged to stress protection of the tiger in 1998, the year coinciding with the Chinese Year of the Tiger, including issuing the tiger’s documentary, money donations, issuing a lottery to raise funds for the salvation work.
		Five tigers at the base have gone to fertile age and three have no close relative in genes, indicating an absence of inbreeding, which is genetically welcome.
	www.china.org.cn /english/SO-e/8644.htm (745 words)

	Caspian tiger - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The Caspian Tiger (or Persian tiger) (Panthera tigris virgata) was found in Iran, Iraq Afghanistan, Turkey, Mongolia, and the Central Asiatic area of Russia.
		Soon the tigers were referred to as the "traveling leaporads" or as the "road", due to having to follow the migratory herd of their prey animals.
		Caspian tigers are solitary for the most of their life.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1457625 (1552 words)

	Tiger Status and Threats
		This not only eliminates available room for tigers to roam, but also fragments and cuts off access for different populations of tigers to meet and mate, and increases the potential for tiger/human conflicts such as poaching for pelts and body parts for use in traditional medicines, and tigers killing domestic livestock for food.
		Like many cat species, tigers usually kill by grabbing their larger prey by the throat and suffocating it (the notable exception is the jaguar, which attacks and bites down on the back of the neck).
		A female tiger’s litter is usually made up of two or four cubs, which are born blind and vulnerable to a number of dangers including grass fires.
	www.zoo.org /tigers/status/sts_thrt.html (713 words)

	Lioncrusher's Domain -- Tiger (Panthera tigris) facts and pictures
		White tigers, like other white animals such as lions, are not albinos because they have stripes and their eyes have color: being blue and not pink or red.
		Tigers, like all cats, have a special layer on the back of the eyes called the tapetum lucidum, which reflects light back to the retina and allows them to see much better in poor light conditions.
		Tigers are very territorial animals, and will fight any strange tiger in their home range, male or female.
	www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=71 (3375 words)

	Bengal Javen Balinese Male Female Siberian Tiger
		Tigers, This site is dedicated to the tiger is has grace and beauty of all the cat family, This animal continues to be hunted and killed so it can be used for medicines and for its stripped coat.
		The tiger is most hunted, There is pictures and info on all aspects of this creature, including bengal javen balinese male female siberian tiger cat teeth white jaws race strips maneager threat coat beauty grace extinction free killed medicines animal.
		Tigers have lived for twenty years in zoos, but in the wild under todays conditions are very unlikely to survive that long.
	website.lineone.net /~steven_faircloth/index.htm (1998 words)

	The Caspian Tiger
		It is commonly stated that the Caspian tiger finally disappeared sometime in the late 1950s; the year given is usually 1959 and the accompanying information often makes reference to the last specimen as having been shot in Golestan National Park, Iran.
		They considered there was no room for the tiger in their plans and so instructed the Russian army to exterminate all tigers found around the area of the Caspian Sea, a project which was carried out very efficiently.
		Any hope of Caspian tigers in Afghanistan could be further dashed as war continues to rage across areas of the country.
	www.lairweb.org.nz /tiger/caspian.html (589 words)

	Tigers - Tiger Facts
		Panthera Tigris or the Tiger is the largest of the cat family; they belong to the same genus as the lion, leopard and the jaguar.
		The length of a tiger from the head to the beginning of the tail is approximately 4 1/2 - 9 feet.
		Tigers have round pupils and yellow irises (except the white tiger which are blue).
	www.wildtigers.bravehost.com /tigerfacts.html (294 words)

	Animal Planet :: Great Cats of India
		Javan, Bali and Caspian tiger DNA samples were not available for investigation in the study.
		Tigers live in areas of forest and tall grassland and, except for females and cubs, are usually solitary.
		Male tigers have occasionally been seen with their own cubs and the mother of their children, but males are known to kill cubs that are not theirs.
	animal.discovery.com /fansites/wildkingdom/greatcats/expert/expert_2.html (217 words)

	The Market for Tiger Products on Taiwan
		This, despite the fact that three of the eight subspecies of tiger (Javan, Bali and Caspian) are already extinct; and that the world's tiger population is less than 6,000 animals (compared with slightly over 10,000 for the five species of rhino and, according to 1989 figures, over 600,000 elephants).
		Considering tiger bone, when compared with prices on Taiwan and in other consumer nations, is still relatively inexpensive in tiger range states in Laos, for example, it sells for as little as US$27-40/lb (Martin 1992b) smugglers, middlemen and wholesalers in Taiwan will certainly continue to trade and profit.
		A traditional method of using tiger penises is to soak the penis in a tonic or expensive brandy for extended periods at least six months according to one source.
	www.earthtrust.org /tiger.html (5948 words)

	WWF \| Wildlife Trade \| FAQs \| Tiger Trade
		All subspecies of tiger are currently threatened with extinction in the wild, with somewhere between 5,100 and 7,500 wild tigers remaining worldwide.
		Tigers have been used for medicinal purposes in East Asian countries for centuries and a belief in their efficacy for treating health problems is deeply rooted in national tradition.
		Tigers are killed for numerous reasons, often as a result of conflicts with humans or to prevent livestock predation.
	www.worldwildlife.org /trade/faqs_tiger.cfm (1642 words)

	Tiger
		There are thought to be more than 10,000 tigers in cages and 90% of them are in miserable roadside zoos, backyard breeder facilities, circus wagons and pet homes.
		White tigers would never survive in the wild as the white coat is only produced through severe inbreeding.
		No purebred Bengal tiger are known to exist in North America because the zoos hybridized all of their stock trying to produce white tigers that could survive the inbreeding necessary to create the white coat.
	www.bigcatrescue.org /tiger.htm (1857 words)

	WWF - Tigers
		While poaching for trade continues to menace the tiger's survival, perhaps the greatest long-term threats are the loss of habitat and the depletion of the tiger's natural prey.
		The tiger is the largest of the Asian big cats and can be found in a wide range of habitats, from the evergreen and monsoon forests of the Indo-Malayan realm to the mixed coniferous-deciduous woodlands of the Russian Far East and the mangrove swamps of the Sundarbans, shared by India and Bangladesh.
		Tigers are typically solitary hunters and prey mainly on deer and wild pig.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/what_we_do/species/about_species/species_factsheets/tigers (874 words)

	Tigers on the brink of extinction \| Science \| Guardian Unlimited
		Tigers, among the planet's most iconic and secretive creatures, have been near the top of the endangered list for some time.
		The area occupied by tigers is 41% smaller than 10 years ago and is just 7% of its historical "range" before habitat loss and hunting slashed its numbers, according to scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, the World Wildlife Fund and the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington.
		Tigers breed quickly for a large mammal and do not require pristine habitat to survive, so preventing poaching can lead to a rapid recovery of a local population.
	www.guardian.co.uk /science/story/0,,1825712,00.html?gusrc=rss (844 words)

	Tiger Bones
		Prime tiger habitat, such as that in the Russian Far East, may remain long after the last tiger is killed to supply the bone trade.
		Tiger bone is most commonly used to treat rheumatism, but other indications are weakness and stiffness or paralysis, especially in the lower back and legs.
		The Global Tiger Forum should continue to meet, establishing itself as a symbol and means of international co-operation for tiger conservation and providing a forum for exchange of information from global experts on the subject.
	user.aol.com /tigertrail/tgrbones.htm (2105 words)

	Tiger
		Tigers have been known to sleep on top of a dead animal on order to protect it from the depredations of vultures and crows.
		The tiger is also affected by cultural factors, many nations revere the tiger as a magnificent symbol, others regard it as a source of potent medicine.
		Basic tiger protection is inadequately funded and management is hampered by the lack of basic biological data on the populations.
	www.catsurvivaltrust.org /tiger.htm (3533 words)

	Tigers habitat, tiger pictures
		Tigers are an endangered species; only about 4,870 to 7,300 tigers are left in the wild.
		Tigers live in a great range of habitats, essentially requiring sufficient prey populations, adequate cover to stalk or ambush, and access to water.
		Tigers may live in northern latitudes in snowy mountain hardwood forests, monsoon or seasonally deciduous forests, or in tropical rainforests.
	www.indianchild.com /tigers.htm (1124 words)

	The Extinction of the Caspian Tiger
		Depending on whom you believe, the last Caspian tiger was reportedly shot in Northern Iran in 1959, or captured in Northeastern Afghanistan in 1997.
		The favored habitat of the Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) used to be around the coastal plains, particularly in the provinces of Mazandaran, Gilan, Golestan and Lankeran (Azerbaijan).
		In the unlikely event that there are some remaining Caspian tigers, we might also be able to do something to preserve the animals or their genes.
	www.tigerfdn.com /Foundation%20overview/caspian2.htm (573 words)

	Tiger
		The tiger needs a good supply of prey, especially deer and wild boar, plenty of water throughout the year; and cover for hunting and breeding.
		In these circumstances a hungry tiger which has felled a human may be tempted to take a bite and, realizing that humans are easy prey, start on the road to man-eating.
		In the last century two subspecies (the Bali and Caspian tigers) have become extinct; the Javan subspecies is also considered extinct.
	www.msu.edu /~junus/melsa/kerabat/05199802.html (708 words)

	Tiger
		The very rare Siberian tiger measures 1.4 to 2.8 m (4.6 to 9.2 ft) long, not including the tail, which is 69 to 95 cm (27 to 37 in) in length, and weighs 180 to 306 kg (400 to 675 LB).
		The tiger is a solitary animal, males and females coming together only at mating time, to share a kill, or to drink and rest at watering holes in areas with limited water.
		The Siberian tiger is classified as Panthera tigris altaica, and the Bengal tiger as Panthera tigris tigris.
	pages.eidosnet.co.uk /davids (382 words)

	Tiger Facts
		The Bengal tiger is found primarily in India, while the Sumatran tiger is restricted to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
		It is believed the Caspian Tiger became extinct in the 1950's, the Javan in 1972 and the Bali in 1937.
		Tigers have fully developed canines by 16 months of age, but they do not begin making their own kills until about 18 months of age.
	www.zoetigers.org /facts.html (1247 words)

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