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About 50% of the Captive Tigers Are Purebred |
A new research published in Current Biology comes to confirm the role zoos, farms and private collections could have in saving menaced species: it seems that up to 50% of the captive tigers could be "purebred" members of an endangered subspecies.
This finding may boost the number of animals to be involved in breeding programs, in a bleak time for the wild animals. About 3,000 tigers are still live in the wild, as compared to over 100,000 individuals just 100 years ago, roaming from India to ...
Posted originally: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:42:00 GMT
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