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I was reading a paper by Professor Cajus Diedrich about the conflict between Cave lions and Cave hyenas in Europe during the last Ice age, and noticed this little Easter egg in the diagram for the distribution of lions in the Pleistocene. Just to let you know, there is no such thing as "Panthera leo tigris".faculty.jsd.claremont.edu/dmcf…
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P.S. he correct label would be "Panthera tigris" - the tiger, which are native to East Asia. Lions originate in Africa and inhabited the open regions where tigers didn't (that's my theory on it, anyway.).
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Also, P.leo vereshchagini is just P.leo spelaea:
''Recent genetic research, using ancient DNA from Beringian lions found no evidence for separating Panthera leo vereshchagini from the European cave lion; indeed, DNA signatures from lions from Europe and Alaska were indistinguishable, suggesting one large panmictic population.''
www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Biologie/A…
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I was already aware of that.
*P. spelaea now:
www.openquaternary.com/article…
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Nope, they were referring to full-fledged tigers.
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He hired a student to make the chart and never reviewed it...my guess. Anyway he seems to write interesting stuff.
Well done 
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Maybe.....
Yes, he does publish a lot of interesting content.
Thanks!
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What do you mean by "Interesting content"?
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Content which is interesting.
Or that interests me.
That's mostly pleistocene megafauna- related papers.
Plus he owns a mini-graphics group, PaleoLogic with which he makes these diagrams.
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I was wondering if you meant that he makes things up or your just interested in it (I am too).
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IKR!
Dr Diedrich has some explaining to do........
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Panthera leo tigris is a fictional subspecies of lion with stripey or blotchy orange fur.
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You're being sarcastic, right?
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I noticed that too as soon as I saw the deviation. But... What is it then?!
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There is no subspecies of lion called "Panthera leo tigris".
It's either "Panthera leo" (lion) or "Panthera tigris" (tiger).
The latter is the correct answer, so the icon should also be changed. Tigers are native to East Asia. Lions aren't. Tigers only entered India around 10,000 years ago.
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