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Old 21st-April-2008, 08:42 AM
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Default Captive tigers 'may save species'

Many tigers held in captivity have "pure-bred ancestry" and could play a key role in the survival of diminishing wild populations, a study suggests.

A team using a new method for assessing the genetic ancestry of tigers found that a number of "generic" animals were actually pure-bred subspecies.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Captive tigers 'may save species'
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