Posted on 02/25/2017 2:19:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
Never underestimate a tiger, no matter how fat.
It's an enduring truth we'd all do well to remember — and one that attendants at a tiger enclosure at the Siberian Tiger Park in China's Heilongjiang province have learned all over again.
They scrambled a flying drone to catch the attention of some of the, let's say, bigger big cats and get them some exercise. Trouble is, the tigers managed to track down the drone and bat it out of the air.
Then, naturally, the Siberian tigers tried to eat it.
Number Of Wild Tigers Increases For First Time In 100 Years THE TWO-WAY Number Of Wild Tigers Increases For First Time In 100 Years Happily, all of it was caught on film, which you can watch above, courtesy of China Central Television. From the dramatic chase to the quadcopter's grim end ... to the quadcopter's revenge from beyond the grave, when it startled the tigers as it started smoking. Eventually, the staff retrieved it from the tigers' big mitts.
As NPR's Bill Chappell reported last year, this isn't the only small victory tigers have recently racked up. In 2016, the World Wildlife Fund announced that for the first time in a century the population of tigers in the wild rose, getting a 20 percent boost in numbers since 2010.
That said, National Geographic notes that Siberian tigers remain endangered, threatened by poaching and loss of habitat.
Don’t believe the Lying Leftist Media. They are presumed to be lying and we should assume that what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
You think the drone won?
Well, Nick, I posted to the wrong story - sorry about that. Didn’t mean to post that here.
Nah, I screwed up and posted to the wrong story. Sorry.
No problem. Unfortunate;y, we all pay for NPR.
http://nextshark.com/chubby-chinese-tigers-hunting-drone-live-slaughter-farm/
Sadly, it’s a slaughter farm. Chinese slaughter and eat or make tea out of them thinking they are aphrodisiacs.
The best way to boost a species population is to farm it.
A bummer, but true.
The more they farm, the more are available on the market, the price drops, the reward for poaching decreases, and coupled with ough penalties for poaching, farming takes pressure off the wild population.
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