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| Kashkarov, E.; Baranov, P.; Pomortsev, O.; Ishchenko, I. | |
| Global Warming and the Northern Expansion of the Big Cats of Asia | |
| 2008 Cat News (48): 24-27 | |
During the past 35 years we have witnessed a zoogeographical phenomenon that has had no satisfactory explanation until now. The ranges of the snow leopard _Uncia uncia_, the Amur leopard _Panthera pardus_ _orientalis_ and the Amur tiger _Panthera pardus altaica_ in Siberia have expanded to the north by more than 1,000 km. In our work we discuss this new wave of northern expansion of the big cats of Asia, based on the less known hundredyear cycle (on average 88 years) and data collected in the field, from hunters and from the literature. |
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