Master Yang, a 55-year-old keeper, has been a tiger keeper at the Zhanggongshan Zoo in Bengbu for 20 years, and it can be said that Master Yang has dedicated half of his life to this zoo, and these tigers, the tigers in the park are all raised by him mouth by mouth, like taking care of his own children. However, at about 8:00 a.m. on May 23, Master Yang was working in the tiger garden as usual, and he did not expect that the tiger he fed with one hand broke out and caused a difficult attack, causing Master Yang to suffer many serious injuries in the neck, head and back and was sent to the hospital and announced that he had died tragically.
There were five subspecies of tigers distributed in China, namely the South China Tiger, the Siberian Tiger, the Bengal Tiger, the Indochina Tiger and the Xinjiang Tiger. In the middle of the last century, due to the struggle between human tigers and other reasons for living space, a human-tiger war lasted for more than 10 years, during which Hunan Province alone killed 647 South China tigers, and more than 2,000 people died.
At present, China's tigers, Xinjiang tigers have become extinct, South China tigers are extinct in the wild, there are more than 20 bengal tiger cubs in the south of Tibet, no more than 10 Indochina tigers, extinction is also sooner or later, the most promising tiger to restore the wild population in the short term is the Siberian tiger.
The Siberian tiger is also called the Siberian tiger, as you can know from the name, it is mainly distributed in the Siberian region of Russia and northeast China. Not long ago, a Siberian tiger "Guandashan No. 1" sneaked in from Russia, pounced on the villagers, smashed the car window, caused a commotion, and was caught and released into the mountains shortly after.
There are fewer and fewer tigers in the wild, and if you want to increase the number of tigers, you can only breed them artificially, so the tiger breeder industry was born. This industry is not easy to do, it can be said that it is full of dangers.
The young tiger looks like a pet cat and seems cute and cute, but this cuteness does not last long. About 3 months, it is no longer a "big cat" to be petted, it only takes 6 months, they can grow into a "big guy" with a body length of more than 1 meter, and the weight of nearly 80 pounds makes it difficult for an adult man to hold. At the age of 2, although it was still "underage" in the tiger world, its body length of nearly two meters and its weight of 400 pounds were already a behemoth for humans.
Wandashan No. 1 is the best example, more than two years old it slapped the tempered glass of the car to pieces, when struggling to bite the tire of the car, although it was already 450 pounds when it was arrested, but experts say that it is still a child...
Even if the tiger raised from childhood, there will still be the instinct of the beast king, from the size of 40 days to eat meat for the first time, its animalism is a little awakened, experienced breeders from this time will deliberately keep a distance from it, to avoid being "accidentally injured", adult tigers even if locked in an iron cage, the breeder will still maintain a distance of more than 50 cm, because their fingernails alone are 8 cm long, as sharp as a dagger.
Although careful enough, the tragedy was repeated.
In 2010, anhui Xiuning County Anhui South National Wildlife Park, a breeder in a tiger cage cleaning, was bitten by the tiger for more than 20 minutes, although many people came forward with bamboo poles, brooms and other beating tigers, hoping that the tiger put down the bitten keeper, but the effect is not obvious, after rescue, the breeder is still dead.
In 2015, at the Chuntai Park Zoo in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, keepers were bitten by tigers while cleaning the tiger house. Although the others quickly arrived to anesthetize the tiger, the keepers died of ineffective rescue.
In 2018, the tiger keeper of the Dream Theater of Guilin Xiongsen Xionghu Mountain Villa Entertainment City was found dead in the tiger cage, and when another keeper was separated from him, he was still cleaning the cage normally, and when he returned again, he was dead, and the tragedy occurred in an instant.
A bloody tragedy is telling us, do not underestimate the lethality of tigers, do not overestimate the meager "nurturing grace", beasts are beasts after all, even if they are domesticated from a young age, they will also make wild nature difficult to train, human civilization for thousands of years has unlocked the pets that can be domesticated, and in the end only cats and dogs are suitable for companion animals, tigers are tigers after all.
As the old saying goes, tiger poison does not eat children. It is said that although the tiger is very fierce, it will not eat its own tiger cubs. This makes people feel that although the tiger is a deep mountain beast that makes people talk about it, it still has feelings, at least the love of the son. But that's not the case.
In general, tigresses do not harm their cubs, but there are exceptions to everything.
1. If the baby tiger has been moved by other animals, contaminated with the smell of other animals, or the environment is very noisy and makes the female tiger nervous, then the female tiger will eat the baby tiger.
2, female tigers can give birth to 5 or 6 cubs in a litter, but this is also a great burden for her, so they will choose thinner cubs to eat, that is, to replenish their own energy, but also so that the strongest cubs can thrive.
3. In order to ensure his status in the jianghu, the male tiger will eat all the small tigers found by him, including his own flesh and bones, in order to control the population and make food sufficient.
4, in the lack of food, female tigers will also eat the baby tiger as food, this is a cruel law of survival, for wild animals, survival is the first element.
Some people say don't challenge human nature, but tigers are even more so. Although it has always been captive, domesticated by humans, and even performed circuses to become a tool for human beings to make money, it was once the king of the hundred beasts after all. With the size and skill of the tiger, let alone launch an attack, that is, the tiger wants to play with people, the tongue licks the skin and opens the flesh, the tiger paw is gently patted, and the fracture is crushed.
It is hoped that all zoos in China can strengthen the protection measures and safety education for the safety of the keepers themselves to avoid a recurrence of the tragedy.
#An animal keeper in Bengbu, Anhui Province, was killed by a tiger attack ##全能创作家 #