The Caspian Tiger (Panthera tigris virgata): Natural History, Extinction, and Conservation Legacy
The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata; Illiger, 1815) is an extinct subspecies of tiger that historically occupied a broad corridor of Central and Southwest Asian habitat — from eastern Turkey and the Caucasus through Iran and the Central Asian river systems — before systematic persecution and habitat conversion drove the population to extinction by the […]