ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[peter]

(12-03-2017, 11:00 AM)Wolverine Wrote: Last month an Amur tigress has killed a man gathering a pine cones in the forest:
https://ria.ru/incidents/20171129/1509823947.html

"IN THE REGION OF HABAROVSK WAS CAPTURED A MANEATING TIGRESS

29 November 2017. RIA news
The tigress who has killed a man gathering pine cones was hunted down and captured in Habarovsk region Wednesday night, she was tranquilized and sent to rehabilitation centre inform regional Ministry of natural resources. 

The body of the pine cone's gatherer was found 30th October in the aria of Bikin. It got clear that the man had not an weapon with himself and he was attacked by "young 2-3 years old tiger". Enquiry was started and the government gave a green light the carnivore to be captured and studied.

In the night of 29the November an operative unit of Ministry of natural resourses hunted down a tigress who has killed a citizen of village Boitcovo. Temporary tranquilised animal will be send to rehabilitation centre "Utjos".

All necessary bio-samples will be directed for veterinary expertize. Decision should be taken by the Ministry about further fate of the tigress - to be placed in zoo or not."

This is news indeed, as Amur tigers only very seldom attack humans. If they do, there always is a reason. In nine of out ten cases, the reason is self-defence. In this case, however, the man was unarmed. This means it's likely that the attack was unprovoked. The question is what happened and why. It is about the details.

As you know, there is a big difference between a big cat killing a human and a confirmed man-eater. This thread is about confirmed man-eaters. For this reason, I propose to move a copy to the tiger-extinction thread.

Good find again, Wolverine. Reply