A Tiger's best friend is a... Goat . This paradox has occurred in the
Primorsky safari park in Russia. Amur tiger became friends with a goat!
Twice a week, give live prey tiger and Amur pleased kills and eats goats
and rabbits. But this time, the tiger suddenly made friends with his
dinner.An unlikely friendship continued to develop between a rare Amur
tiger and a goat that was meant to be his dinner, at Primorski Safari
Park in Shkotovski . Rare Amur tiger usually dines on live goats and
rabbits without a care, twice a week.
The goat that has been named
Timur in honour of his bravery in facing his predator, has been observed
for several days frolicking in the snow with his newfound friend. The
Primorsky safari park runs a program for breeding rare tigers in
captivity partly to give the large animal the chance to hunt his prey.
The Amur tiger's affection for Timur the goat is highly unusual after
three years of hunting other goats. Timur appears to think the Amur
tiger is his leader, chasing and following it at every turn. The two
animals are fed every day in the hope of helping the friendship continue
and to avoid a bloody ending.
The safari park now posts daily
updates of the friendship, saying the tiger "hisses" to warn off workers
from approaching too closely to Timur.
The pair have been dubbed "the cautious Amur and the brave Timur" by fans.
Separating the two might be difficult, with Amur showing a protective attitude towards his new friend.
"Amur
hissed at an employee who feeds the tigers, as if to tell him, 'Hey,
don't you ever approach my friend'," RT reported a keeper saying.
"Before that, he never showed any aggression towards staff."
Employees
Primorsky safari park ceased to feed the goats Amur tiger, who became
friends with a goat Timur and together they began to walk in aviary.
Predator continues to feed on live prey, but now instead of ungulates he
is given the rabbits.
Park staff noted that a tiger behaves much
calmer in the presence of Timur. "Cupid often roared ahead - both day
and night. And after friends of Timur roar almost stopped, the tiger has
become calmer and more balanced,"
Seaside safari park includes four
thematic areas in which live dozens of species of animals and birds.
Most of them were picked up in the forest sick or injured, to get them
back into the wild anymore. Safari Park is involved in several
environmental programs in the Primorye Territory, including in the
program of conservation of rare animals.
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