Primorye: a tigress who came to people died

At the center of rehabilitation of the Tigers of Primorsky village Alekseevka, an old Tigress died, found in late January on the veranda of a residential building in the Khabarovsk village of Solonsovy. A predator with broken teeth and a serious injury to the gums herself went to people, without showing aggression. In the center of rehabilitation, the animal was allocated a warm room and fed minced minced meat with vitamins.

The results of the autopsy will show the causes of death, but the experts remind that the tigress acted as an extreme degree of exhaustion, she did not have a fat layer at all. Scientists suggested that the beast could not hunt due to pain from fluid in the joints. “This is probably a complex disease of the musculoskeletal system, characteristic of animals at the age,” said Sergey Aramilev, general director of the Amur Tiger Center.

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The damage that people could cause did not find on the body of the Amur Tigeritsa, write RIA Novosti . In early February, zootechnics reported an improvement in the condition of the predator: the tigress began to eat and even climbed onto a wooden shelf in her house.

The Amur Tiger is listed in the International Red Book, is on the verge of extinction. One of the largest animal populations - in the Far East of Russia - now has no more than 500 individuals. In addition to poaching, the loss of the feed base is threatened with due to uncontrolled hunting on ungulates, as well as loss of migration tracks due to large-scale deforestation.