[Ads-l] "Niger" or "Niger"?

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

I've heard more than once that there are more captive tigers in the U.S. than there are wild ones in South Asia.

> 
> BTW, the only tigers in Africa in 1887 would have been imported from Asia, where they live.
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> So it's just as conceivable that the incident occurred in Africa as anywhere else outside of Asia, as long as the tiger had been imported
> (perhaps escaped from a circus).
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> One mustn't assume.
> 
> Which is more likely in 1887 - a Nigerien in Asia or a tiger in Africa.
> 
> Hmmm.....
> 
> JL


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