Fat tigers at the zoo of china. Overweight Amur tigers from China made social media users laugh and worried animal rights activists
Editorial staff Factrum shares photos of fat tigers with the reader and hopes that they will soon return to normal.
In the main zoo of the Chinese city of Harbin, today you can see tigers that weigh several times their norm.
All photos in post: © AsiaWireAccording to the zoo workers themselves, the predators simply gained fat for the winter, almost like bears, and by the spring the excess weight will go away by itself.
However, zoologists sounded the alarm. World Organization for Animal Welfare President Will Travers says these tigers need urgent help
Travers believes that the tigers are either very seriously ill, or, despite all the prohibitions, they were fed by visitors to the Harbin Zoo.
Now the Harbin Zoo is home to about eight hundred Amur tigers, whose weight is much higher than the norm.
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Editorial staff Factrum shares photos of fat tigers with the reader and hopes that they will soon return to normal.
In the main zoo of the Chinese city of Harbin, today you can see tigers that weigh several times their norm.
All photos in post: © AsiaWireAccording to the zoo workers themselves, the predators simply gained fat for the winter, almost like bears, and by the spring the excess weight will go away by itself.
However, zoologists sounded the alarm. World Organization for Animal Welfare President Will Travers says these tigers need urgent help
Travers believes that the tigers are either very seriously ill, or, despite all the prohibitions, they were fed by visitors to the Harbin Zoo.
Now the Harbin Zoo is home to about eight hundred Amur tigers, whose weight is much higher than the norm.
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Photos of noticeably plump Amur tigers from the Harbin Zoo in northeastern China have appeared online. On social media, fat animals waddling lazily from side to side have practically become a new meme, but some animal rights activists are concerned about their condition.
In the pictures, the tigers look very unusual: some have grown so fat that they seem to be unable to even get up from the ground.
Many social media users were amused by the photos.
« When I die, I hope to return to this world in the form of a fat tiger. "
« I would probably be a shitty wild animal, just like this fat tiger. "
Fat tigers are normal in winter, according to zoo staff. The daily diet is specially increased for the animals so that they can more easily survive the cold months; by the spring, cats should lose weight.
Despite this, one of the largest animal rights organizations, the Born Free Foundation, suggests that tigers have serious health problems.
Will Travers, president of the organization, told the publication that feeding tigers in the winter is completely pointless and even harms the animals.
Judging from the photographs, tigers are at the stage of obesity, this is an indicator of an inappropriate and unnatural diet. This also suggests that the animals did not have the opportunity to behave in the same way as in the wild. In my opinion, this is neither funny nor cute. These animals are sick.
He traveled to China, where he stayed for a week and returned to his homeland. Specialists of the Amur Tiger Center continue to monitor the predator's movements using a collar with a GPS module, which the tiger was equipped with upon release.
According to experts, on October 22, 2018, the tiger swam across the Amur River and ended up in China. “Fortunately for Saykhan, he did not have time to misbehave in a week and returned safely to Russia, and now he is moving towards the places where he lived for the last three months,” said Sergei Aramilev, general director of the Amur Tiger Center. colleagues, Saikhan managed to kill a ram, appear on a video recording device to farmers and leave a trail 10 meters from the dog, but did not touch it. Frankly speaking, exemplary behavior. "
Note that the beginning of partnership between Russia and China in the field of conservation of Amur tigers and leopards was laid back on November 10, 1997, when a Protocol was signed between the Government Russian Federation and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Conservation of the Tiger. According to joint research of the two countries, in last years Approximately 40% of Amur tigers living in the border regions of China and Russia make active cross-border movements.
From 24 to 26 October 2018, an international forum on the conservation of the Amur tiger and leopard was held in Harbin. Representatives of Russia, China and other countries of the world exchanged experience in the protection of wild animals, giving Special attention cross-border cooperation in the protection of Amur tigers and leopards.
"Currently in China, the creation of the Northeast national park tiger and leopard, whose territory borders on "Land of the Leopard". It is important to reach agreements on a joint security and scientific activities... Therefore, we invited our colleagues from China to visit the Land of the Leopard and continue discussing ways of cooperation for their further presentation to the governments of both countries, "commented Viktor Bardyuk, director of the Land of the Leopard National Park.
Center "Amur Tiger"- an autonomous non-profit organization created by the Russian geographic society in 2013 at the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The objectives of the Center are to study, preserve and increase the population of the Amur tiger in Russia through the implementation of environmental, scientific, educational and cultural and educational projects.
"Land of the leopard" – national park, created in the Primorsky Territory in 2012. The main goal of the project is to preserve and restore the population Far Eastern leopard, the rarest large cat in the world, the number of which in Russia, according to the latest data, is 84 individuals. In addition, another cat, listed in the Red Book of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, lives here - the Amur tiger.