Tiger Subspecies

I don't like the idea of hybridization.

I sure hope the South China Tigers can be saved. How many are left in the wild?
 
"There is a small chance that some individuals are still extant."

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List]IUCN Red List - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
 
ostrich said:
South China Tigers may be critically endangered, but they are NOT extinct in the wild.
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from the IUCN page which you linked to:
"The South China Tiger is listed as Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct in the Wild). On the balance of evidence, the taxon appears to the Extinct in the Wild, but there is a small chance that some individuals are still extant."

That does not equate with "they are NOT extinct in the wild"
 
According to the Chinese government there are still a few in the wild. According to everyone else who knows anything about wildlife, they have been extinct in the wild for several decades.
 
Even if there are a few left in the wild, I doubt it is not enough to sustain a population in the long-term.
 
At one time the Los Angeles Zoo had Bengal tigers and Siberian tigers at the same time. The Bengal tigers lived where the Sumatran tigers currently are, and the Siberian tigers lived in a roundhouse exhibit.

I wonder if the San Diego Zoo had more than two subspecies of Panthera tigris ?, I would like to think so and i am pretty sure they did.
 
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