The tigers who came for tea: ‘World’s biggest’ cats go on rampage in Russia killing humans and eating dogs after Putin saved species from extinction
Tigers have gone on a rampage in Russia, killing people and eating dogs, after Vladimir Putin saved the species from extinction.
Giant Amur tigers, considered the largest cats in the world, are believed to be behind a series of attacks over the past year, in which two people were killed by the beasts and several others injured.
In December, Viktor S was brutally mauled and killed in the Khabarovsk region of eastern Russia while looking for ‘the place where his dog was killed’, probably by the same animal.
Local fisherman Sergey Kyalundzyuga, 19, was seriously injured last year after a wild tiger jumped through his window and attacked him. He survived after the big cat was shot dead by his cousin.
This comes after Putin supported the rehabilitation of Amur tigers in their natural habitat in the east of the country.
Giant Amur tigers (pictured) – considered the largest cats in the world – are believed to have been behind a series of attacks over the past year, in which two people were killed by the beasts and several others injured.
An Amur tiger, captured by a CCTV camera, is seen carrying away a guard dog it had killed
Now the number of endangered species has risen rapidly to more than 750 in the wild – and they are proving to be a threat to villagers.
The remains of a man were found near the Khabarovsk region after he was reported missing. Researchers said there were clear signs that he had been attacked and devoured by a tiger.
Also last year, Darya Ulyanova, 26, suffered “severe lacerations” to her shoulder and both arms when a tiger attacked her while she reportedly “went to the toilet in the bushes during a holiday”. Her husband used his truck to ram him and save her life.
Shocking videos show a spate of attacks on guard dogs by prowling Amur tigers.
In one case, a tiger killed a trained guard dog at a Russian border post with China in the Khabarovsk region.
Just this weekend, a tiger killed a guard dog in the village of Kutuzovka, south of the city of Khabarovsk, before eating another, probably by the same big cat in the village of Srednekhorskii, about 40 kilometers away.
An Amur tiger, captured by a CCTV camera, is seen entering the garden of a residential house in eastern Russia
One of the Amur tigers that reportedly killed ten domestic guard dogs in Russia’s Far East has been tranquilized and captured by Russian hunting authorities
An Amur tiger, the world’s largest cat, is seen moments before killing a guard dog in eastern Russia
An Amur tiger, captured by a CCTV camera, is seen carrying away a guard dog it had killed in the Khabarovsk region
A tiger spotted on a CCTV camera carrying away the body of a guard dog it had killed
In the neighboring Primorsky region, a domestic watchdog was attacked in Kuguki, north of Vladivostok.
Earlier this month, a heavyweight guard dog weighing 60 kg was killed in the Anuchinsky district of the Primorsky region – probably by an Amur tiger, whose males can weigh up to 190 kg.
Last month there were tiger attacks on dogs in at least three villages.
One theory for the killings is that the tigers’ natural habitat is being destroyed by humans, meaning the beasts cannot find their usual prey.
Poaching remains a threat to tigers and nearly drove them to extinction in the wild during Soviet times.
‘In my opinion (the increased tiger attacks) are associated with the destruction of the predator’s habitats due to logging, excessive hunting of (the tiger’s prey) and African swine fever, which has decimated the remaining wild boar population’ , said zoologist Sergei Kolchin. in environmental news center Kedr.