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Published: 2020-04-02 10:22:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 11078; Favourites: 447; Downloads: 0
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Uno de los primeros doodles de animales prehistóricos que subí al Deviant fue del tigre de Alaska en 2008, un bicho hipotético cuya existencia fue alguna vez sugerida en base a restos fósiles. Ha pasado mucho tiempo y no sé si dichos fósiles fueron identificados con certeza, así que ni me pregunten
Pero siempre me fascinó la idea de que el tigre- así como el dhole o incluso el hombre- hubiera podido cruzar desde Asia a Norteamérica en algún momento de la prehistoria. Y pues, le he puesto algo de color solo por practicar
One of the first doodles of prehistoric animals I uploaded to Deviantart was this Alaskan tiger in 2008, a hypothetical creature whose existence was once suggested based on fossil remains. It's been quite a while and I have no idea what has become of those fossils or whether they were ever ID'd with any certainty so don´t even ask.
But I always thought the idea of tigers crossing from Asia to North America at some point in prehistory- like dholes or even humans did- quite fascinating.And yeah, this is the same doodle just with some color for practice
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The idea of tigers crossing into North America and establishing breeding populations is indeed interesting, and this picture fuels that interest.
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Ironically, there are currently more tigers in the United States than there are left in the wild in Asia.
www.nationalgeographic.com/ani…
Unfortunately, most of them don't exactly live in ideal conditions...
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Tigers have seen better days for sure. But at least they keep reminding us of their glory days by eating someone every once in a while
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I ended up adding the alaskan tiger information to Wikipedia when I found out about it.
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Where did you find about it?
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The book "The Big Cats and their Fossil Relatives" by Alan Turner and Mauricio Anton.
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No, we're talking about the potential real life tiger, not a cryptid.
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Then I dunno. Because Alaskan Tiger is a cryptid but never heard of the prehistoric version. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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The eyes make this Alaskan tiger look quite possessed.
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You should color more of your old doodles! It's great!!!
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Sadly, even if those fossils were actually tigers (which apparently hasn't been proven), it wouldn't seem like they were abundant (not unlike dholes, another iconic Asian species that arrived to North America during the Pleistocene).
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The whole idea is based on Herrington (1986, 1987). It has been commented favorably by Turner and Antón (1997) and mentioned in this blog post by Darren Naish in 2007 scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoolo… .
As far as I know, no formal disprooval or reanalysis of the findings exists (the thing is still mentioned in the tiger Wikipedia page), but given how old the original studys are, I can't help but being a little skeptical: a reanalysis of the case (perhaps with a nice DNA analysis) would be very welcome.
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You really nail the feeling of atmosphere in your works man
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I think there actually are sightings of tigers in some parts of Alaska, sorta like cryptid sightings i guess
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Or more logically, an animal that escaped captivity.
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Kinda hard to mistake a wolf for a tiger.....
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Or, you know, a really big wolf.
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If you're looking for tigers hunting bison, the Caspian tiger and Caucasian wisent did that until a few centuries ago in western Asia, Asiatic lions also got in on the bison hunting there, as well as the Balkans.
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