'Extinct tiger' snapped
By Claire Wang |
November 2, 2010, Tuesday
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EXPERT say a mysterious animal photographed by a tourist in east China resembles the supposedly extinct South China tiger.
Bao Shuguang, an Anhui Province native, spotted a yellow 2-meter-long wild animal while traveling in Sanqing Mountain on the afternoon of October 15.
He took four pictures of the animal but was unsure if it was a tiger, China News Service reported yesterday.
Forestry experts of Guangzhou-based Sun Yat-sen University thought the animal looked like the South China tiger when showed the pictures by the management office of Sanqing Mountain.
Renewed focus on the South China tiger reminded people of the notorious 2007 case involving farmer Zhou Zhenglong who faked photographs of the tiger to get a reward offered by the Shaanxi government. He was later convicted of fraud.
Bao denied his photographs are a publicity stunt, saying several other tourists also saw the animal and that their photographs were not as clear as his.
Some Internet users said the sighting was a trick to create media hype to promote local tourism. Others, however, thought it could be real, as the South China tiger had been reported in Yihuang area, close to the Sanqing Mountain.
The South China tiger has not been seen in the wild for more than 20 years.
Bao Shuguang, an Anhui Province native, spotted a yellow 2-meter-long wild animal while traveling in Sanqing Mountain on the afternoon of October 15.
He took four pictures of the animal but was unsure if it was a tiger, China News Service reported yesterday.
Forestry experts of Guangzhou-based Sun Yat-sen University thought the animal looked like the South China tiger when showed the pictures by the management office of Sanqing Mountain.
Renewed focus on the South China tiger reminded people of the notorious 2007 case involving farmer Zhou Zhenglong who faked photographs of the tiger to get a reward offered by the Shaanxi government. He was later convicted of fraud.
Bao denied his photographs are a publicity stunt, saying several other tourists also saw the animal and that their photographs were not as clear as his.
Some Internet users said the sighting was a trick to create media hype to promote local tourism. Others, however, thought it could be real, as the South China tiger had been reported in Yihuang area, close to the Sanqing Mountain.
The South China tiger has not been seen in the wild for more than 20 years.
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