Fallow Deer

[Dr. John E. McLaughlin]

Rick Mc Callister:
	There were tigers in the Caspian region until about 100 years ago.
How far to the north and west did they live in earlier times?

Me:
	According to the sixth edition of Walker's Mammals of the World (1999,
Johns Hopkins, Vol 1, pg. 828), "P. t. virgata (Caspian tiger) occurred in
modern times from eastern Turkey and the Caucasus to the mountains of
Kazakhstan and Sinkiang, in the Middle Ages may have reached Ukraine, also
one report from northern Iraq in 1892, a few individuals still present in
Turkey in the 1970s, now probably extinct."

John E. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English
Utah State University

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