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A Caspian tiger photographed at Berlin Zoo in 1899.
The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) was a subspecies of tiger native to West and Central Asia. Although traditionally believed to have gone extinct since the 1970's, people in remote regions of Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and Turkey assert its continued existence.[1][2]
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- ↑ Eberhart, George M. (2002) Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, ABC-CLIO, Inc., ISBN 1576072835
- ↑ Freeman, Richard "If You Were the Only Gul in the World and I the Only Boy," Animals & Men 66/7 (November 2018)