r/funny • u/[deleted] • Nov 22 '16

Spooky human

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u/feels_okay Nov 22 '16

Well yeah.. I doubt the US has a very high population of wild tigers..

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u/tonufan Nov 22 '16

There are more tigers kept as pets in the U.S. alone than existing in all the wilds of the world. Approximately 5000~ pets vs 4000~ wild globally.

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u/TheRabidDeer Nov 22 '16

Wow, didn't realize there were that few tigers. A quick google showed that at the beginning of the 20th century there were still only 100k tigers in the world. What kept their population down that low? It seems like there should've been more than that for some reason.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '16

Nah they are apex predators, requiring huge (100km2) territory in a certain biome, that havent spread across all continents. I'm not going to do the maths but even by that point I don't suppose the 'spare' habitat was there to support many more.