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| Elliman, T. | |
| In search of the Chinese Tiger | |
| 1993 Full Book | |
Tigers once occupied a large percentage of China's landmass. The Siberian (or Manchurian) tiger ranged in mixed coniferous-deciduous forests in the northeastern provinces of Heilingjjang and Jilin, formerly known as Manchuria. The South China tiger, the only race endemic to China, occupied a vast, primarily subtropical territory, extending from the southeastern provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang westward to Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, and eastern Sichuan. The Indochinese tiger in China is at the northern end if its natural distribution throughout Southeast Asia. In China it is limited to tropical forests in southern and western Yunnan Province. The Bengal tiger, whose main area of distribution includes India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan, is known only from lowland subtropical forests in the Yarlung ZANGBO (Brahmaputra) River drainage in southeastern Tibet. Finally, the Caspian tiger in China was at the eastern edge of a range that extended into the Central Asian Republics of the USSR, Iran, and eastern Turkey. In China it was known in the area of Lob Nor on the edge of the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang Province (Wang and Wang 1982, Tan 1987). |
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