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Another Dead Tiger Cub Found in Primorye
18.06.2008

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On June 18, Rosprirodnadzor (Federal Nature Use Oversight Agency) got information from a villager that he had seen a tiger cub lying near the apiary he worked at, 45 km far from Novopokrovka town in Krasnoarmeisky district. Apparently it was ill or wounded, as he made no attempts to get up and run away.

The team of three men: the Rosprirodnadzor officer, a specialist of the Regional Department of Game and Rare Species Protection and the watchful villager, arrived at the palce. The female cub aged 5-6 months 20 kg of weight was discovered 200 m far from the apiary of “Taiga” Ltd. The carcass had no visible injuries except for the nose and the left forepaw. The men saw no tracks of the tigress nearby.

The incident was reported to Rosprirodnadzor Department of Primorsky region and the Regional Department of Game and Rare Species Protection. An administrative case was initiated on the fact of the Red Book animal death. As a part of the investigation, veterinarians from the Lazovsky nature reserve and Primorsky State Agricultural Academy did an autopsy and determined that double-sided pneumonia had provoked the death.

Several days before the discovery a tiger had stolen two dogs from that village. On June 16 and 17, a local resident had seen an adult tiger not far from the place where the cub was later found. Most probably, that very tigress attacked the dogs. Witnesses say that two cubs followed her.

Sergey Bereznyuk, Director of the Phoenix Fund, comments:”: Since the beginning of winter, this is already the second tiger cub found dead. Another two cubs were half-alive, and specialists were unable to save them. There is a lucky cub that is now being rehabilitated and will be released back into the wild this fall. For several years running the Phoenix Fund with the Federal State Institution “Inspection Tiger” have been running the Conflict Tiger project, in the framework of which we monitor situations with ill and problem predators, and search for effective ways to solve them”. Reply