Don't try to encounter a tiger in the wild, confront the tiger, and photograph the tiger. Once the tiger has no strangeness to people, it will take the initiative to attack you, hunt you, and feed on you!
★Reflection on "10 minutes of confrontation with tigers" on November 27
On November 27, a video from "Top News" exploded all over the Internet - at about six o'clock that day, Mr. Wang was driving in the jungle of the Changbai Mountains, and suddenly found a huge Siberian tiger strolling leisurely on the side of the road, but he was not afraid of his approach.
Mr. Wang had encountered a Siberian tiger several times because he had driven in the Changbai Mountains many times, so he was not afraid, but stopped his car on the road and carefully observed the Siberian tiger. He even rolled down the window and teased the Siberian tiger: Come here, come here!
But the tiger did not come over, nor did he go away, but kept staring at the car, confronted Mr. Wang for 10 minutes, and finally lost interest in Mr. Wang and the car, and only left.
During this period, Mr. Wang continued to use his mobile phone to film the tiger, and the tiger quietly watched Mr. Wang's operation and did not attack Mr. Wang.
Mr. Wang said that the Siberian tiger weighed about four or five hundred pounds and belonged to an adult Siberian tiger.
After the video broke out, it immediately caused heated discussions. Many people are very extravagant to be like Mr. Wang, to meet the tiger once in the Changbai Mountain, to confront each other at close range, to shoot once, and even to joke with the tiger a few words. Take pride in it.
★ Frequent encounters with Siberian tigers have become the norm
With the implementation of the natural forest protection project and the establishment of the Siberian Tiger and Leopard Park in Changbai Mountain, there are now about 60 Siberian tigers in China.
However, due to the long-standing history of rural areas and forest farms scattered throughout the Changbai Mountains, and the fact that the roads leading to the forest areas of the Changbai Mountains extend in all directions, it has become the norm for people entering and leaving the mountains to encounter tigers from time to time.
For example, in May 2020, Mr. Feng from Yanbian, Jilin Province, once encountered a Siberian tiger in his car. In July, as he drove past the vicinity of Wang Qingyi's forest farm, he saw a Siberian tiger on the side of the road.
The tiger lay on the side of the road not far away, and when Mr. Feng drove by, the tiger tentatively pounced on the car, but it did not pounce. Mr. Feng even shouted at the tiger: Big brother, what are you doing?
In another example, on July 23 and 24, 2020, residents of Daofen Village, Fuxing Township, Wangqing County, encountered Siberian tigers for two consecutive days, and the place where the tiger was found was less than 10 kilometers from the village.
On January 1, 2022, Ms. Zhao from Hunchun City, Jilin Province, drove through the mountains and forests and encountered a juvenile tiger cub for the first time. On January 2, Ms. Zhao and her friend were in the same car and went on another tour in the mountains and forests, only to encounter another wild adult Siberian tiger in the same place.
On November 28, 2022, Mr. Tai from Yanbian, Jilin Province, was driving home when he encountered a Siberian tiger near Machuanzi Township, Hunchun City. The tiger stood in the woods on the high slope beside the road and watched Mr. Tai.
The man and the tiger looked at each other for nearly a minute before the tiger turned and disappeared into the woods.
In the China Northeast Tiger and Leopard Park in Changbai Mountain, there are many people who often encounter Siberian tigers.
★ The tiger is confronting you, and it is studying you
For this reason, I have interviewed many old hunters in the Changbai Mountains, and only two of them have encountered tigers in the winter forest and snow fields, and they have confronted each other for a short time.
But it was the hunters who shot the tiger in the air first, scaring the tiger away. Because those who walked on foot in the snowfields did not dare to retreat first, and besides, they brought with them the hounds that were already frightened.
Hunters confronted bears, wild boars, wolves, roe deer, deer and other animals and judged that there were two scenarios:
First, when a beast suddenly encounters a human, it will suddenly be stunned and not know what to do. Especially herbivores, such as roe deer, deer, etc., will look at you stupidly. Carnivores, on the other hand, glare at you fiercely.
Second, if the beast encounters a person and doesn't run, then the beast is studying you to see what a person is, why it looks like this, why it walks on two legs, whether it poses a threat to them, and even wonders if it can prey on you, but I don't know if it can defeat you.
★ The tiger confronts you, and it is testing you
I asked: Why do so many people encounter tigers in the Changbai Mountains, and the tigers don't immediately dodge and flee, but confront you for a while before reluctantly walking away?
The hunters say it's a tiger tempting you.
As we all know, the tiger is huge and strong, mighty and ferocious, up to more than 600 catties, the maximum speed can reach 80 kilometers per hour, can jump 8-10 meters wide ravine, upwards more than 2 meters, the forefoot of the striking force of more than 800 kilograms.
It usually feeds on herbivores such as roe deer, wild boar, sika deer, red deer, and moose. Even if it is a tall and powerful brown bear, the tiger dares to fight.
However, tigers inhabit high mountains and dense forests, and only live with wild animals, and it is difficult to see humans walking on two legs and wearing clothes.
Tigers have a great curiosity about humans. Of course, there is also a sense of fear of rare humans.
It doesn't know if a person walking on two legs is fast or fast, if he is fierce in fighting, and if he can hurt it. Because they didn't find that humans had the same fangs and claws as they did! But they saw tools in people's hands.
Tigers have an innate fear of iron and firearms, which is genetically inherited. Because their ancestors were slaughtered countless times with iron and firearms.
Therefore, while the tiger is observing you, it is also suppressing you through its own aura, testing whether you are fearless or timid.
If you turn around and run away, then, sorry. Just in line with the tiger's wishes.
If you're driving a car, the steel guy is much larger than the tiger, and the tiger is putting pressure on the tiger itself.
The tiger and the car must be studying why the car has no legs and no fangs and claws. Tigers are studying whether cars can pose a threat to their survival. I wonder if I can defeat this steel behemoth.
Therefore, the tiger has to make all kinds of temptations for cars or people. Meditation and releasing coercion may also be one of the means of temptation.
★ Without strangeness, the tiger will hunt you
Previously, it was reported that there had been cases of adult tigers suddenly coming out of the roadside and attacking passing vehicles in Jincang Forest Farm in Yanbian, Jilin Province. It wanted to find out if this steel guy was really good.
It is speculated that if the tiger slammed into the window, the glass would shatter instantly. If you attack a motorcycle, it will cause a significant safety risk to the Autobots, or you will be injured or killed, which is unimaginable.
The old hunters said: People generally take an unreasonable attitude towards strangers, and even if they have to deal with them, they also take a cautious attitude. Because of the fear of being calculated by strangers.
Tiger vs. man, even more so. Because they have never seen people, or rarely seen people, and rarely encounter people up close. Therefore, tigers have always had a strange feeling for people who do not grow hair, wear clothes, and walk on two legs.
Strangeness is a sense of distance and a sense of security. Because the tiger has never known the details of people.
If the tiger is familiar with people, knows that these two-legged beasts can run slower than any common herbivore or carnivore, and do not have combat weapons such as fangs and claws, it will take the initiative to attack you and hunt you. One is to eliminate the threat. The second is to fill the stomach.
Russian tiger experts have proven that once a tiger eats a person and finds the meat tasty, it will list the person in its recipe. That would be terrible.
★ Tigers eat people and are addictive
Many people have seen the story of Wu Song fighting the tiger in "Water Margin". Why did Wu Song fight the tiger? Because he was drunk in Jingyanggang and encountered a tiger attacking him.
Why did the tiger attack him?
Because the tiger has eaten more than a dozen people, and the county has issued a notice to kill it by local hunters.
But this tiger is used to eating people, coupled with hunger, it is extremely fierce, and finally bumps into the hands of Wu Song, who is more fierce than it.
This tiger was addicted to cannibalism and died because of cannibalism.
"Gu Xuan Shuo History" once wrote, "Tigers are actually one of the most man-eating wild animals in the world, and since 1800, they have eaten 370,000 people!"
Indian media say that a Bengal tiger once wreaked havoc on the lands of India and Bangladesh in just eight years, biting and eating 436 people!
This hungry tiger is not meant to eat people. Initially because of attacking an old man and eating him.
Since then, the tiger has preyed on the elderly and children, eventually becoming an ogre tiger spanning Bengal and India...... (About the author: Wang Tianxiang, a senior journalist and writer, has published 42 novels and other monographs, written more than 200 episodes of TV dramas, created dozens of TV films on history, culture, scenery, documentaries and other topics, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles.) ）