Siberian tigers butchered for body parts in their zoo

Clutch Munny · #1 12-24-2007, 02:46 PM

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Two Siberian tiger cubs have been found dead in a refrigerator at a Chinese zoo less than a week after another incident involving the endangered species.

Tiger body parts are treasured as medicines in China.

On Thursday a female Siberian tiger was found dead in the same area. Thieves had broken into its cage, tranquillised the animal, then butchered it.

livius drusus · #2 12-24-2007, 03:00 PM

Horrendous.

It's got to be an inside job, no? I don't see an intruder leaving cubs behind in the ticketing area refrigerator.

Dingfod · #3 12-24-2007, 03:02 PM

Too bad there's not some sort of vicious man-eating animals that could safeguard defenseless animals like this.

Don't shanghai me for that.

Adam · #4 12-24-2007, 03:27 PM

I'm sort of curious about the farm bred tiger market mentioned in the article. Call me a skeptic, but if there are enough farm bred tigers to supply the needs of the (supposed) medicinal market being pushed for, it should be really easy to bring the species back from the brink of extinction. Since that isn't happening, I somehow doubt the farm bred tiger market is gonna happen.

ZEZOZE · #5 12-24-2007, 04:16 PM

but does the medicine work? :chin:

Dingfod · #6 12-24-2007, 04:41 PM

How could millions of people be wrong? Effective or not, the market for these 'cures' is immense.

Clutch Munny · #7 12-24-2007, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Dingfod

How could millions of people be wrong?

In general, I think that is a very, very, very interesting question.

Dingfod · #8 12-24-2007, 06:32 PM

I meant it facetiously. Millions, even billions of people are wrong about many things.

Qingdai · #9 12-24-2007, 06:56 PM

It's the viagra problem, people will do anything to make their wang shwing, no matter what the cost or if it actually works.

ZEZOZE · #10 12-24-2007, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Qingdai

make their wang shwing

is that anything like wang chung?

Clutch Munny · #11 12-24-2007, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dingfod

I meant it facetiously.

No, I got that. Such a question would normally be meant rhetorically to suggest that so many people couldn't be mistaken; and such a suggestion just ain't you.

But I mean, taken literally, as in "how does it happen?", it is a fabulously interesting question.

Dingfod · #12 12-24-2007, 10:39 PM

True.

* Dingfod feels a bit sheepish at the moment

Schrodinger's Cat · #13 12-26-2007, 02:34 AM

Mass misconception of truth occurs when the proposition being advanced occurs offers a quick and easy solution to a commonly held negative perception.

Corona688 · #14 12-26-2007, 03:36 AM

poor communication and poor education, and sometimes, just plain bullheadedness.

Caligulette · #15 12-26-2007, 06:21 AM

Meanwhile....Man eating tiger eats man

San Francisco Zoo. I think I've seen this tiger.

#16 12-26-2007, 02:55 PM

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The horrifying violence...

Maybe it's just too early for me, but that phrase annoys the hell out of me in this context. It seems to imply some deliberate, pre-meditated serial killer action* on the tiger's part. It's a tiger. Hell, it's a cat. It's what they do. I hate that it ended up losing, anyway. A shadowy, free-roaming tiger in San Francisco would've been a good splash of cold water in our "master of nature" faces.

Colorado Springs would be even better, but it would need several.

*not that I would have blamed it in the least had it actually been so

Watser? · #17 12-26-2007, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Caligulette

Meanwhile....Man eating tiger eats man

San Francisco Zoo. I think I've seen this tiger.

Yeah, you see that is what you get: retaliatory attacks.

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Originally Posted by Watser? News Agency

A spokestiger for the Liberation Tigers of Siberia announced today that more such attacks are planned until such time as the US starts a total boycott of China to force an end to tiger killings. The spokestiger also had a message for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam: 'Stop fronting guys, seriously.'

Dingfod · #18 12-26-2007, 03:49 PM

Tiger Woods must figure into this somehow.

Adam · #19 12-26-2007, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Uthgar the Brazen

A shadowy, free-roaming tiger in San Francisco would've been a good splash of cold water in our "master of nature" faces.

A leopard got loose from a local zoo when I was maybe 8 or 9. I remember being terrified to go visit my aunt who lived near the zoo for months.

California Tanker · #20 12-26-2007, 04:12 PM

Wasn't the Beast of Bogden Moor supposed to be a puma or panther which escaped from the local zoo? That thing was knocking about for years.

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I hate that it ended up losing, anyway. A shadowy, free-roaming tiger in San Francisco would've been a good splash of cold water in our "master of nature" faces.

Speak for yourself. I'm a cautious lad. I plan never to go into areas where critters with big claws and sharp teeth live without the ability to cheat. (i.e. bring gun).
In areas where the firearm won't work (i.e. against sharks and such), I work on the philosophy of 'Enter the water, enter the food chain.' I rarely swim.

NTM

Adam · #21 12-26-2007, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by California Tanker

Wasn't the Beast of Bogden Moor supposed to be a puma or panther which escaped from the local zoo? That thing was knocking about for years.

I believe that, or a similar story, contributed to the freakout factor for my 9 year old self.

viscousmemories · #22 12-26-2007, 04:21 PM

According to this article, the two refrigerated cubs were stillborn Bengal Tigers and freezing pending an investigation was the proper action.

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Local media also reported on Monday two dead tiger cubs were found in a frige in the same zoo. "The bodies of the two cubs were still preserved in the refrigerator. Police are waiting for the decision of the provincial forestry bureau," Cao added.

Cao said the zoo was right to freeze the tiger cubs' bodies instead of cremating or burying them, but its management should have reported the deaths to the authorities in time.

The zoo was ordered to suspend operation starting from Thursday for shaping up its management.

According to the national law on wildlife protection, zoos should get the approval of local authorities before disposing of the bodies of deceased wild animals. But the zoo keepers didn't report the deaths until the bureau started to investigate the matter on Saturday.

Dingfod · #23 12-26-2007, 04:30 PM

That's their story and they're sticking to it.

Caligulette · #24 12-26-2007, 06:03 PM

There are still mountain lions in the Bay Area. A co-worker of my step father was killed by one while out running in the mountains of South San Francisco a few years back.

Sauron · #25 12-27-2007, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Clutch Munny

People suck.

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Two Siberian tiger cubs have been found dead in a refrigerator at a Chinese zoo less than a week after another incident involving the endangered species.

Tiger body parts are treasured as medicines in China.

On Thursday a female Siberian tiger was found dead in the same area. Thieves had broken into its cage, tranquillised the animal, then butchered it.

You bet. Ridiculous folk superstitions are killing many beautiful species, and China/Korea top the list of the markets willing to do this.