Rare Indochinese tiger snapped
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Chinese scientists in Yunnan province have photographed of a wild Indochinese tiger, according to a Xinhua report. The big cat, one of the world’s most critically endangered tiger sub-species with only around 1,500 believed to remain in the wild, was reportedly snapped in May 2007 by a researcher with an infrared camera in Xishuangbanna Nature Reserve, a mountainous border area straddling China and Myanmar.
“The research group found a large number of tiger footprints, faeces, remains of prey and traces of other activity in the reserve,” a provincial forestry department official was reported saying. “They also found bison, sambar, barking deer, boar and other herbivorous animals that were part of the tigers’ food chain.”
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