TATIANA the tiger escapes from its cage at San Francisco Zoo and kills a man.
The Siberian tiger was shot dead.
Zookeepers at the Honolulu Zoo are “scratching their heads over how one of their tigers — an 8-year-old Sumatran male named Berani — managed to slink out of his enclosure”.
And now news of a royal Bengal tiger wandering into a village in India, about 150 miles south of Calcutta.
An “angry” mob chases the tiger up a date palm tree.
At one point, as many as 1,000 people chased the pregnant tiger through fields and villages, some hitting it with stones. Wildlife workers tranquilized the tiger as it sat in a tree, and they brought the royal Bengal down, where the groggy cat briefly attacked one of the hundreds of villagers surrounding the tree. The tiger was treated for a few minor injuries and was then returned by boat to the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve, where when its cage was opened; the tiger leaped into the water to swim away.
Is this all part of a bid by tigers to be noticed, a cry for help? Are tigers sick of polar bears getting all the attention? Look out for more tiger stories, and tigers…
Posted: 24th, February 2008 | In: Global Warming, Polar Bear Watch Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 25th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Why didn’t they shoot the allegory, is it protected or something?
February 25th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Poor Tiger. Why is it the monks in Asia somewhere can look after Tigers and very rarely if ever get attacked. Are Tigers so afraid of humans! What excitement in India when they (people) all went mad, so no wonder the Big Cat went for them Glad it got away.
February 24th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
An allegory?
Isn’t that across between a crocodile and one of the Wombles?
February 24th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Yes, read it. Good read. But was it a tiger? I thought it was an allegory, and the guy in the boat was the tiger?
February 24th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
WOW! Anyone read the life of Pi by Yan Martell?
….its about a young boy stranded in a life boat at sea with a.. tiger, a monkey and another aminal, its totally brilliant….
That picture sums it up!