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Topic: Anatolian Leopard (Panthera Pardus Tulliana): Larg Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 07:47 |
Its original habitat was the mountains and forests of the Aegean and Mediterranean Regions of Anatolia, where it no longer exists. It was thought to be extinct when a surviving species was photographed in 2003 at the Kakar Mountains in the Black Sea Region where a small population of around 10-15 is believed to still survive (the mountains of the Black Sea Region are still wild and not destroyed by humans.)
If one of them can be found alive, it will be cloned under a preservation program.
Here's the last one which was captured and killed in 1974 after attacking a woman in a village of the Aegean Region:
http://www.ergir.com/last_anatolian_panther.htm
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xi_tujue
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Posted: 04-Jun-2006 at 07:56 |
I didn't know that there were panters in Turkey. I only thought bears, wolves and wild boars. Are there any other carnivores in Turkey
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Bashibozuk
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Posted: 06-Jun-2006 at 12:28 |
There were also tigers in the Taurus mountains, from Lycia to upper Mesopotamia. That's why Adana SK was referred as "the tigers of Taurus" once.....
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Ikki
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Posted: 06-Jun-2006 at 13:51 |
Originally posted by Bashibozuk
There were also tigers in the Taurus mountains, from
Lycia to upper Mesopotamia. That's why Adana SK was referred as "the
tigers of Taurus" once..... |
Curious, the greeks was very surprised about the lions with lines from India.
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Kapikulu
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Posted: 06-Jun-2006 at 13:59 |
Originally posted by Ikki
Originally posted by Bashibozuk
There were also tigers in the Taurus mountains, from Lycia to upper Mesopotamia. That's why Adana SK was referred as "the tigers of Taurus" once..... |
Curious, the greeks was very surprised about the lions with lines from India.
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But those are very ancient...During the Hittite era, when Anatolia was covered with forests, there used to be many of those lions,tigers etc..
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Ikki
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Posted: 06-Jun-2006 at 16:53 |
aa OK, i thought that these animals was living there until recent times.
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Bashibozuk
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Posted: 07-Jun-2006 at 11:01 |
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Garibim, namima Kerem diyorlar,
Asli'mi el almis, harem diyorlar.
Hastayim, derdime verem diyorlar,
Marasli Seyhoglu Satilmis'im ben.
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Battle_Hymn
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Posted: 08-Jun-2006 at 19:30 |
Hmmm u dudes didnt watch CNNTURK 2-3 days ago i think ^^
They gonna cover Anatolian Panters too :)
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Posted: 08-Jun-2006 at 19:49 |
Please my Turkish brothers,do what you can to save the last Anatolian Leopards,they are a treasure that Turkey cannot afford to loose!
Salam!
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Leonidas
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Posted: 09-Jun-2006 at 07:28 |
tigers in anadolia? hm
the furthest west i know tigers ranged, is the (maybe extinct or
definatly close to it ) caspian tiger but ive never heard of it in
anadolia.
Can you provide soureces or links to prove that. There where loins in greece once upon a time, but tigers that far west... it would take more than a heresay for me.
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Posted: 09-Jun-2006 at 12:36 |
I have also heard that there were tigers in Anatolia, before the area was inhabited by many humans
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