Land of the Leopard National ParkThe endangered male Amur tiger who is believed to be at least 15 years old, known as Tikhon, appeared at a remote Russian border post, in the Land of the Leopard National Park, on the country’s frontier with China on December 31.
Despite guards’ attempts to scare the tiger away firing warning gunshots, Tikhon stayed put defying their efforts and his own natural instincts refusing to move on and leave.
The website wrote:
This time he acted ‘out in the open’: without fear of the border guards, the predator walked the site for a long time. Employees of the outpost tried to scare away the animal with fire and single shots, but the beast ignored these attempts.It was then decided by staff from the park it would be best to capture the animal and remove him from the wild believing the tiger’s unusual behaviour could pose a threat to humans.
At the same time, according to the observation of the border guards, the tiger was limping, crouching on its hind legs.
He will soon undergo a thorough veterinary examination to analyse what caused the tiger’s strange behaviour which is currently predicted to be either a wound, disease, old age or a combination of these causes.
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