The 27-year-old was apparently attacked and killed by the big cat, which was kept as a pet, Indonesian media reported on Sunday. The victim’s wife found the young man in the cage with scratch marks on his body and a missing toe, wrote the news portal Sindonews.com.
The 27-year-old, who worked as a housekeeper, was feeding his boss’s tiger when the attack occurred, the portal reported. His wife initially waited in front of the house. But when she noticed that her husband was taking longer than usual, she went inside. Her husband was lying motionless in the cage, it was said. According to reports, the incident had already occurred on Saturday.
According to initial investigations, the tiger was a four-year-old Sumatran tiger that had been illegally kept as a pet since birth, the head of the nature conservation authority in East Kalimantan province, Ari Wibawanto, told the news portal. Mediakaltim.com news. . Now they want to take the animal to a protected area, said local police spokesman Yusuf Sutejo.
Police photos and videos showed that the tiger was kept in a cage that was in a locked room. The Sumatran tiger, the smallest living subspecies of big cats, lives in Indonesia. Animal protection organizations estimate that only between 400 and 600 specimens of Panthera tigris sumatrae remain today. In addition to poaching, the loss of natural habitat, for example through palm oil plantations, has also decimated numbers. The animals are listed as threatened with extinction on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List. Other Indonesian subspecies, such as the Bali tiger and the Javan tiger, are already extinct.
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