Man takes on tiger in Russian Far East – tiger wins
01/10/2008 11:29
VLADIVOSTOK, January 10 (RIA Novosti) – Wildlife
officers are investigating an attack by a tiger on a man in the
Khabarovsk territory in Russia’s Far East, the deputy chief of a
local wildlife watchdog said on Thursday.
The man, who suffered lacerations on both arms as well as fractured
ribs, had driven to the taiga region on January 1 with his brother to
celebrate the New Year.
“We are guessing that the victim may have provoked the attack
himself, as these predators normally don’t attack humans without
cause,” said Vitaly Starostin.
Starostin said that the victim was so drunk at the moment of the
attack that could not remember the place where he had met the animal.
Later he was only able to roughly point out two areas in the forest
where the attack may have taken place. The spots were some 20 km (12
miles) apart.
Siberian tigers, also known as Amur tigers, are the world’s largest
subspecies of tigers. They are on the World Conservation Union’s
critically endangered status list, with about 500 of them left in the
wild.
On December 25, 2007, a Siberian tiger named Tatiana escaped its
enclosure in the San Francisco zoo, killing one person and injuring
two before being shot dead.
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http://bigcatrescue.org
http://www.savethetigerfund.org
http://www.worldwildlife.org/tigers/
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