Caspian tiger

High school (ages 12+)
Animals & Nature

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Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/caspian-tiger

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. How big is Caspian tiger?Some individuals were intermediate in size between Siberian and Bengal tigers
2. What is the scientific name?Panthera tigris virgata
3. What is the primary habitat?Sparse forests and riverine corridors
4. Where did the Caspian tiger live?It lived in many places from eastern Turkey and northern Iran, through the Caucasus and Central Asia, all the way to western China. It also lived in parts of southern Russia until the Middle Ages.
5. Why did the Caspian tiger disappear?The tiger went extinct because people cut down its forest homes and hunted it for sport and its fur. The loss of its habitat and being killed made the numbers fall to zero.

Phylogeographic Analysis: The study of the geographic distribution of genetic lineages within a species or group of species.
Habitat Fragmentation: The process by which large, continuous habitats are broken down into smaller, isolated patches.
Apex Predator: An organism at the highest level of the food chain, with no natural predators.
Persecution: Hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs; in this context, hunting and killing by humans.