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The first incident of a tiger attack within the colony was in September 1831, on a Chinese woodcutter whose body was found near a gambier plantation. [3] Subsequent attacks were reported in local newspapers from 1840 until 1940, increasing the general public's awareness of the possible dangers.
Chinese authorities issued a warning after a viral video showed a farmer narrowly escaping a Siberian tiger attack on Monday in the country’s northernmost Heilongjiang province.. Two men were ...
USA TODAY Network file photo of a tiger in a zoo The employee had worked at the zoo since 2015, officials announced. It was the first such attack in 50 years at the zoo.
While in modern times there are on average fewer than 85 people killed and injured by tigers worldwide each year, India has seen sharp increases in absolute numbers of tiger attacks in recent years, as was the case in 2014 and 2015, as a result of human population growth and the expansion of human settlements into the tiger's natural habitat. [4]
A zoo janitor has reportedly been killed by a tiger at Pitești Zoo in Romania. The man, 52, entered the tiger’s enclosure to clean it on the morning of Monday, Dec. 9 and was tragically killed ...
Since the founding years of modern Singapore in 1819, over 90 species have been recorded, including megafauna such as tigers, leopards and sambar deer. Most of these have since become locally extinct largely due to rapid urban development, with occasional large mammals such as Asian elephants swimming across the Straits of Johor from Johor ...
Authorities have called the spate of deadly incidents unprecedented, saying that only four tiger attacks in total, two of which were fatal, were recorded in five years between 2017 and 2022.
Today is a Singaporean digital news magazine published by Mediacorp. It was originally established on 10 November 2000 as a free print newspaper, competing primarily with Singapore Press Holdings ' (SPH) Streats .