One was shot in 1954 in the Sumbar River valley in the Kopet Dag range, on the Iran-Turkmenia border. See more ideas about Caspian tiger, Tiger, Extinct tigers. Caspian Tiger General Facts Read the Caspian Tiger facts and information below to learn more about their habitat, diet, close living relatives, and when they became extinct.

Other reports suggest the last tiger was killed in 1959 in the Golestan National Park in northern Iran. The Caspian tiger’s unique habitat was the seasonally flooded tugai vegetation growing along the great rivers that flow from high mountains and traverse deserts, or around lakes. Dec 26, 2019 - Explore 1234's board "Caspian tiger" on Pinterest. These give way to tamarisk shrubs, saxaul and other salt resistant plants on the desert edge. † Direct hunting, a dwindling habitat and a decline in its main prey populations were the reasons for the extinction of the Caspian tiger.

Caspian tigers (Panthera tigris virgata), a now extinct subspecies genetically similar to the Amur tiger (P.t.altaica), occurred until the mid-1900s from modern day Turkey and Iran east through Central Asia into northwest China.A literature analysis we conducted revealed that Caspian tigers occupied ca. The Caspian Tiger was found living in the wild until the 1970s when it is believed the last one died. Tall, dense reed beds grow along the riverside fringed by gallery forests of poplar and willow.