Incredibly Rare Siberian Tiger Release!

Incredibly Rare Siberian Tiger Release! This is the moment Zolushka, an orphaned Siberian tiger, was released back into the wild. She was orphaned at just a few months old, after her mother was likely killed by poachers. Having been rescued and rehabilitated, her team was ready to release her in Russia. You can see everyone taking cover in protective “tanks” as the tiger leaps out of the cage to freedom. Incredible footage; incredible animal! The Siberian tiger is genetically close to the extinct Caspian tiger. Results of a Phylogeographic study comparing mitochondrial DNA from Caspian tigers and living tiger populations indicate that the common ancestor of the Siberian and Caspian tigers colonized Central Asia from eastern China, via the Gansu−Silk Road corridor, and then subsequently traversed Siberia eastward to establish the Siberian tiger population in the Russian Far East. The Caspian and Siberian tiger populations were the northernmost in mainland Asia. The Sib