Tiger signs atcub death site
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June 20, 2010, Sunday
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EXPERTS have found the first signs of a wild Siberian tiger living in the east of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province since the death of a malnourished tiger cub in February.
Prints from a Siberian tiger were found near the site where a cattle farmer reported a calf had been mauled in the Wanda mountains near the China-Russia border, officials have said.
Li Guidong last week reported one of his calves had been half-eaten while grazing on a hillside at Yongfeng Forest Farm, near where the eight-month-old cub was found, said Gao Jinfang, the Party chief at the Heilongjiang provincial forestry administration.
"The paw prints at the scene showed it was an adult female tiger based on my long-term observation," said Dong Hongyu, a senior researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Heilongjiang.
"I'm sure it is the one I have observed for a long time and it is the mother of the dead cub," Dong said.
It was the only wild Siberian tiger known to exist in the Wanda Mountains in east Heilongjiang, he said.
Animal conservationists say they have been tracking the tiger for five or six years in the administrative area of Dongfanghong Forestry Bureau and Yingchun Forestry Bureau.
On February 25, a female cub was found trapped in a pile of firewood in a yard of an employee of the Dongfanghong Forestry Bureau, and died of malnutrition and stress two days later.
The cub's mother was not traced. "We didn't know whether it had died or left after its baby was dead until now," Dong said.
Prints from a Siberian tiger were found near the site where a cattle farmer reported a calf had been mauled in the Wanda mountains near the China-Russia border, officials have said.
Li Guidong last week reported one of his calves had been half-eaten while grazing on a hillside at Yongfeng Forest Farm, near where the eight-month-old cub was found, said Gao Jinfang, the Party chief at the Heilongjiang provincial forestry administration.
"The paw prints at the scene showed it was an adult female tiger based on my long-term observation," said Dong Hongyu, a senior researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Heilongjiang.
"I'm sure it is the one I have observed for a long time and it is the mother of the dead cub," Dong said.
It was the only wild Siberian tiger known to exist in the Wanda Mountains in east Heilongjiang, he said.
Animal conservationists say they have been tracking the tiger for five or six years in the administrative area of Dongfanghong Forestry Bureau and Yingchun Forestry Bureau.
On February 25, a female cub was found trapped in a pile of firewood in a yard of an employee of the Dongfanghong Forestry Bureau, and died of malnutrition and stress two days later.
The cub's mother was not traced. "We didn't know whether it had died or left after its baby was dead until now," Dong said.
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