A mining area in Jilin Province surprised the Northeast Tiger in the early morning and killed a dog. Officials： I’m not sure whether it was the one that killed the leopard.

In the early morning of January 4, near a mining area in Hunchun City, Jilin Province, a Siberian tiger walked slowly in the middle of the road with blood on its front paws. The whole process was photographed by the monitoring of the police office. On January 5th, residents of the living area in the mining area told Jimu journalists that tigers had appeared near the mining area many times this winter, and this tiger killed a dog in the early morning of the 4th, and its front paws should be the blood of dogs. The relevant staff of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park responded that it is temporarily impossible to determine whether this tiger is a tiger suspected of killing the Northeast Leopard in the near future because of the lack of high-definition video on the side of the Northeast Tiger.

Siberian tiger was surprised in the early morning of the mining area

Two surveillance videos show that at 0: 33 on January 4, a tiger slowly strolled from a distance on the motorway at the entrance of a mining area. When it walks under the camera, it can be clearly seen that there is obvious blood on its front paws. The surveillance video also shows that the camera "Wing Police Room 235" recorded this process.

Because there is still blood on the front paws of the Northeast Tiger, some netizens are worried about whether it is injured after watching the video.

On the afternoon of January 5, local citizen Mr. Hu (Hua surname) told Jimu journalist that the incident occurred near the gold and copper mine more than 100 kilometers away from Hunchun city, and the mining area was located in the Northeast Tiger Nature Reserve. In the early morning of the 4th, the tiger appeared at Xiamengang in the mining area, about 5 kilometers away from the living area. Just at 11 o’clock in the middle of the night on November 6 last year, the camera of "S-bend Police Room 231" near the mining area also photographed a tiger pacing slowly on the motorway, which is the upper gate of the mining area, near the living area.

"I sent these surveillance videos to my friend who is engaged in animal protection. She thinks that the tiger that appeared late at night on November 6 and early in the morning on January 4 is probably the same one." Mr. Hu said that he used to work in the mining area. When he drove back and forth between the mining area and Hunchun City, he had never seen the Northeast Tiger, only the Northeast Leopard, but many of his colleagues and nearby residents had seen the Northeast Tiger.

Residents say it killed a dog.

The boss who opened a canteen in the living area of the mining area told the Jimu journalist that there was indeed a Siberian tiger near the gate of the mining area in the early morning of the 4 th, and it also killed a dog in the gate. The blood on the front paw of the tiger in the monitoring should belong to that dog.

"We are a protected area here, and we can often see the Northeast Tiger." The boss said that he had traveled to Hunchun City by car before and had met the Northeast Tiger on the road. This winter, she felt that the Northeast Tiger would appear more frequently near the mining area. "It appeared in October and November last year, and it appeared again this time." She said that especially this time, the tiger killed a dog, and she was even more scared, and she didn’t dare to go out for a walk at night.

"During the day, everyone went to the mine from the living area, driving or riding motorcycles, which was also good. There were no fewer customers coming to the store to buy things. But at night, everyone dared not walk around. " She said.

I’m not sure if it’s the one that killed the leopard.

Hunchun is the center of the Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, with a high density of tigers.

According to Jilin Daily’s previous report, at 11: 00 pm on November 6 last year, the surveillance camera set up in the above-mentioned mining area captured the physical image data of the wild Siberian tiger. According to the early warning information of National Forestry and Grassland Administration National Testing and Research Center, this tiger is fierce. It was a tiger that injured people in Duhuangzi Forest Farm in Wangqing County in 2022. Everyone should be vigilant and try not to go out at night.

At 4: 50pm on December 31st last year, a local netizen "hitched a ride" and drove home for New Year’s Day. When he was 18km away from Lushan Road in the southwest of Hunchun, he suddenly found a Siberian tiger in the forest not far from the highway. According to this netizen, this is not the first time he has photographed the Northeast Tiger. The reporter noted that the above-mentioned mining area is also located near the southwest fork.

According to CCTV news reported on December 30, 2023, a rare case of Northeast Tiger preying on Northeast Leopard occurred in Hunchun, Jilin recently, and a No.112 Northeast Tiger has been locked as a suspected tiger. Then, is the Siberian tiger that appeared near the mining area in the early morning of January 4 this suspected tiger that preys on the Siberian leopard?

On January 5th, Jimu journalist contacted the relevant staff of Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park about the appearance of tigers in the mining area on January 4th. He introduced that at present, there is no report from the mining area. Because of the lack of high-definition video on the side of the Northeast Tiger, it is impossible to see the pattern on it, and the identity of the tiger cannot be determined for the time being. It is uncertain whether it is the same as the Siberian tiger that appeared near the mining area last November, and whether it is a suspected tiger that recently preyed on the Siberian leopard.

As for some netizens who are worried that the Siberian tiger will be injured because of the blood in its front paws, the staff said that from the shape of this Siberian tiger, it is an adult Siberian tiger. The tiger walked steadily and walked a long distance, showing no signs of injury.

Manda Liu Yi, a journalist with extreme eyes.