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I'm pretty sure there's no tigers in DMZ. This isn't the Amazon, this is a strip of land between two belligerent countries whose population densities make California look like a rural utopia. If there was a tiger, I think we'd know. :)

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1. Makes a "good faith" remark about someone having an inaccurate (AFAIK) information on a part of land I grew up next to. (OK, calling Seoul "next to" DMZ might be a bit of stretch, but then Americans consider SV as "next to" SF...)

2. Gets declared off-topic.

3. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've seen deer -- at night -- in Zone 1 in London. Where there's food there's life.

tigers in the amazon? leopard maybe.

I think you mean jaguars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

California is more dense than NK. South Korea is denser than Cali, but only about as dense as New York State

Either way, the DMZ is 400 sq miles largely forested, with about 0 human population density. Maybe its got some leopards, maybe maybe a tiger.

Eh? Population density according to Wikipedia (person/km2):

    South Korea 507
    North Korea 201

    New Jersey  470 (densest amont US states)
    New York    162
    California   97
    US average   33

The Korean DMZ is "about 250km long, 4km wide" strip of land sitting between two hostile countries, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers on either side, with barbed wire fences and watch posts running along its length. Thousands of eyes are watching every corner of it right now as I write this.

(For comparison, the Yosemite national park is 1,169 square miles, larger than DMZ. Somehow people are sure that it harbors no grizzly bears.)

A tiger isn't a bigfoot. It is an apex predator that roams around huge areas and is scared at nothing. I stand by my assertion: if there's a tiger in DMZ, we'd know.

Thanks, my bad with the greater/less than reference, I mixed up mi2 and km2 even though I thought I was watching out for that. Call it the same order of magnitude as California. Nothing like Hong Kong densities (6000+/km2).

Yosemite national park has loads of grizzly bears. Also a few million visitors per year to spot the grizzlies and sometimes get killed by them. [http://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/bears/]

I wouldn't bet money on a tiger living there either, but there really aren't many humans walking around most of the DMZ.

Yosemite is not Yellowstone. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/bears.htm

There hasn't been a grizzly bear in Yosemite since the 1920s.

for heavens sake someone put a tiger in there, sort of a cat amongst the pigeons

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