A Striking South China Tiger Seizure Feed Member in Shanghai on December 17th

    At 10:30am On December17th, the Shanghai Zoo breeding farm , a breeder was killed by a tiger . According to the Shanghai Zoo introduced , the incident was cleaning the tiger breeder homes . After the incident, Shanghai Landscaping and amenities Authority has been involved in the accident is under investigation. According to its introduction , the incident had hurt the tiger did not record , currently not in estrus .

    It is understood that the accident tiger " Yingying " 9 years old , the prime of life , was born in Shanghai Zoo, no wild task , it is not the wild breeding . A few days before , Yingying do not have any strange. Currently , the tiger has been isolated in the tiger Scotia . Zoo says its not euthanasia .

    According to the zoo introduced , was killed by a male breeder surnamed Zhou , aged 56 , from Shanghai, technicians, responsible for cleaning animal cages and feeding the animals , working in the garden for nearly 30 years , and three years can retire.

     Shanghai Zoo animal husbandry department chief James said yesterday, raising dinner at noon when officers found Zhou master gone, went around to find. Down in the final week of the master found the tiger in discounted homes , lying face down in a pool of blood next motionless , Yingying pacing back and forth in his side, and growls . Other breeders will Yingying rush into quarantine , subsequently found to be biting the neck circumference master , head , face, bite marks have been .

    A colleague said, according to the recipe , yesterday should give Yingying fed beef. Tiger comparison morning hunger, relatively obedient , listen passwords basic gestures breeder . But this time the larger temper , Yingying nearly three meters in length and weighing 400 pounds, the wild tiger stronger than other adult park .

    Breeding grounds is not within the Shanghai Zoo park is not open , the main breeding tigers , leopards , monkeys , ostriches , etc. Tigers and other wild animals are reared in captivity in the open-air cages plus households , tiger incident homes located in the deepest on the west side .

     According to insider, Yingying is the main male tiger breeding farms tiger species , have been infertile six cubs . A total of 27 tiger breeding farm , every tiger breeding two homes . "Tiger is a two bedroom homes , there are iron is separated from the living room is a tiger mating game or place ."

     The source said , according to the security process , when the tiger breeder cleaning homes, a door between the isolation of people tiger , then finished cleaning a room next to the tiger isolation cleaning .

     Preliminary understanding , the incident tiger iron hanger with a few fans among the breeder was open. Chief James said she saw the door between the three tiger did not care about the doors are intact .

     It is involved in the follow-up of the breeder said, according to the time and found the body of a tiger has not been fed food , etc. to determine the incident should be 10:30 or so, the master should be positive for tiger week cleaning homes , yet the food fed to the tigers .

     The cube ice machine officer related the news.