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6 July 2009

Written By: grantb on July 6, 2009 No Comment

The BBC reports that the largest species of cat, the Amur tiger, has an effective population of less than 50 animals:

They sampled nuclear DNA found within the scat samples of an estimated 95 individuals found throughout the Amur tiger’s range, likely constituting up to 20% of the remaining population.

The study sampled the amount of variation within the DNA [...]

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