{"id":33658,"date":"2017-01-20T07:07:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T15:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scientists-have-a-plan-to-bring-back-the-caspian-tiger-which-has-been-extinct-for-50-years"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:50:49","slug":"scientists-have-a-plan-to-bring-back-the-caspian-tiger-which-has-been-extinct-for-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scientists-have-a-plan-to-bring-back-the-caspian-tiger-which-has-been-extinct-for-50-years","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have a Plan to Bring Back the Caspian Tiger, Which Has Been Extinct for 50 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-a-plan-to-bring-back-the-caspian-tiger-which-has-been-extinct-for-50-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caspian tigers were some of the largest cats ever to roam the Earth, but they went extinct in the 1960s. Now, some scientists want to bring them back.<\/p>\n<p>A new study, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0006320716308151\">published in the journal <em>Biological Conservation<\/em><\/a>, lays out the plan to reintroduce the tigers using a subspecies, the Siberian tiger, which is genetically similar to the Caspian tiger.<\/p>\n<p>The authors write in their paper that the Siberians tiger\u2019s \u201cphenotype proves adaptable to the arid conditions of the introduction site\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-a-plan-to-bring-back-the-caspian-tiger-which-went-extinct-50-years-ago\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-a-plan-to-bring-...-years-ago<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caspian tigers were some of the largest cats ever to roam the Earth, but they went extinct in the 1960s. Now, some scientists want to bring them back. A new study, published in the journal Biological Conservation, lays out the plan to reintroduce the tigers using a subspecies, the Siberian tiger, which is genetically similar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65307,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33658\/revisions\/65307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}