The Quiz: Which of these subspecies of tiger is considered extinct?
A Indochinese tiger
B Caspian tiger
C Malayan tiger
The Caspian tiger inhabited eastern Turkey, northern Iran, and the countries around the Caspian Sea in Central Asia until the 1970s. It was classified as extinct in 2003. It is one of at least three tiger subspecies driven to extinction. The Bali tiger has been extinct since the 1950s; the Javan tiger has been extinct since the 1970s. The South China tiger is feared to be extinct in the wild as no sightings have been confirmed in decades.
The correct answer to this quiz is Caspian tiger.