Hunchun, Jilin： The Northeast Tiger entered the sheepfold and killed 22 sheep overnight (Photos)

　　Northeast tiger killed 22 sheep in one night when it entered the sheepfold.

　　On the evening of 19th, a Siberian tiger broke into the sheepfold of Song Jinlin, a sheep farmer in Shitougou, Taiyang Village, Hunchun Cooperation Zone, and stayed there for one night, killing 22 sheep. The staff of Hunchun National Nature Reserve Administration and Senjing stayed at Song’s home for one night. At 4 o’clock on the 20th, the tiger just got through the fence and walked slowly away from the car where everyone was sitting.

　　Song Jinlin came to Hunchun from Inner Mongolia 10 years ago, and made a living by feeding cashmere goats and selling cashmere. He earned a good income in the past two years.

　　For the convenience of feeding, the couple deliberately chose to live alone at the foot of a mountain two kilometers away from Sun Village.

　　Speaking of meeting the Northeast Tiger, 47-year-old Song Jinlin still has a lingering fear. He told reporters that at around 17: 30 on the 19th, it was already dark. He heard two dogs barking outside the door in the house, so he went out to check with a flashlight. When he walked to a section of gravel road about 20 meters away from the house outside the door, he felt that there was something ahead. He took a flashlight and saw a black and yellow animal. "Its eyes are shining and shiny." At this time, Lao Song was only more than 100 meters away from the tiger.

　　The sudden encounter with the tiger frightened Lao Song. He quickly picked up an iron basin and a big stick around him and knocked it hard, hoping to scare the tiger away, but the tiger ignored him and jumped into the sheepfold around him. As soon as Lao Song saw it, he quickly ran back to the house.

　　Blood wash sheepfold

　　The tiger killed 22 sheep

　　When Lao Song returned to the house, his heart jumped with fear. At this time, the sheep in the sheepfold suffered. "The tiger bit the sheep in the sheepfold, and he heard those sheep. One moment he baaed, the other he baaed, and one died. I am so distressed in the house!" When telling the reporter, Lao Song still feels distressed. What should I do? Lao Song hurriedly called 110 to report to the police. Before the police arrived, Lao Song had the courage to open a crack in the door and beat the big iron drum with a stick in the house. Because they heard from the older generation that this would scare the tiger away, and it was called "shocking the tiger", but it still didn’t work for a long time. The sheepfold was still in turmoil, and the screams of the sheep came from time to time.

　　According to the statistics afterwards, 22 of the 240 sheep in the pen were killed by the Northeast Tiger, and only the bone was left in the one that was eaten, and all the others were killed by biting their throats.

　　The police car went up the hill

　　The tiger lay in the sheepfold and didn’t walk.

　　After a while, Hunchun Forestry Bureau, Forest Public Security Bureau, Hunchun Protected Area Administration and other staff members came to the scene. Three cars drove into the yard of Lao Song’s house, and the lights shone directly on the sheepfold. Lao Song also ran out of the house and got into the car under the command of the staff.

　　Under the introduction of Lao Song, three cars surrounded the sheepfold, and the lights shone inside the sheepfold. At first, no one saw the tiger. After a while, the sheep dodged a little, and the tiger walked from the outside of the sheepfold to the place where there was a shed inside. At this time, everyone could see clearly, "A big tiger looks more than two meters long and 1.34 meters high." Lao Song told reporters.

　　However, the tiger hid in the sheepfold, lay down, and let the lights of three cars shine, but it just didn’t go.

　　Fire six shots into the air

　　The tiger is still not scared away.

　　Time passed little by little, and in a blink of an eye, it was more than 21 o’clock. The tiger had been lying in the sheepfold and couldn’t come out. At this time, due to the blocking of sheep and the long distance, the lights couldn’t shine on the tiger. What should we do? So many people can’t spend the night with tigers all the time! So everyone thought of another way to shoot the tiger away! After asking for instructions from the superior, the forest police fired six shots in the air. After the earth-shattering gunfire, the originally uneasy sheep were even more agitated. However, after half a day, the tiger still didn’t make any movement, and it just stayed there!

　　Stay overnight

　　The tiger paced away from his eyes.

　　This is the first time for the staff to encounter this situation. Zhao Hongming, the newly appointed deputy director of Hunchun National Nature Reserve Administration, held an emergency on-site meeting to study countermeasures. Finally, Zhao Hongming decided to stay with the forest police and the other two cars left. The staff and Lao Song continued to stay in the car to observe the tiger’s movements. Everyone has been afraid to sleep, but the Northeast Tiger waited until about 3: 30 on the 20th to leisurely walk out from the depths of the sheepfold. It ignored the car in front, picked one from a pile of dead sheep, dragged it back into the pen and ate it. It was not until 4 o’clock that it was full of food and drink that it came out from the inside. This time, it actually wanted to get out of the sheepfold surrounded by wire.

　　Lao Song told reporters that the tiger was drilling in the gap in the sheepfold in front of the car, and it was still stepping on the dead sheep. It drilled several times and finally got out of a crack. At this time, it was more than 3 meters away from the car. Everyone saw that the tiger was very powerful, more than 2 meters long and 1.34 meters high. It was clear under the headlights. It ignored everyone’s eyes and slowly left people’s sight. According to the staff who witnessed the scene, this is an adult male tiger.

　　Footprint reproduction

　　The tiger returned to its empty mouth.

　　Lao Song told reporters that after the tiger left, Zhao Hongming told him to pay attention to safety. Once the tiger was found back, he should never hide in the house. After confirming the tiger’s departure, Zhao Hongming and his party left. Unexpectedly, on the evening of 20th, the tiger came back! Lao Song said that in order to prevent the tiger from coming back to eat sheep, he rushed all the remaining sheep to the warehouse of a friend’s house in Sun Village, and at the same time let go of both dogs so as to find the tiger at any time. At 1 o’clock on the 21st, two dogs began to bark desperately. He felt that the tiger was back, so he knocked on the basin in the house again. The barking of the dog lasted for more than half an hour before it disappeared. When he got up in the morning, he saw several clear tiger footprints in the snow.

　　Very distressed

　　Most of the 22 sheep killed were pregnant ewes.

　　The reporter learned that many of the 22 cashmere goats lost by Lao Song were pregnant ewes. The staff of the Protection Bureau registered the dead goats and said that they would be compensated according to the standard. Lao Song pulled out two unborn lambs from the belly of a dead sheep yesterday. "It hurts. In the past two years, cashmere has just been sold. One kilogram has reached 400 yuan, and a cashmere goat is also more than 600 yuan." Lao Song said that sheep produce cashmere once a year, and in April every year, a sheep can produce half a kilogram of cashmere.

　　Experts say

　　This is the first time that tigers have injured livestock.

　　On this matter, the reporter consulted Li Zhixing, an expert who has been engaged in the protection of Siberian tigers for many years. He said that under normal circumstances, the Northeast Tiger only eats one animal at a time, and will not stay in an unsafe place for so long, which is somewhat inconsistent with the habits of the Northeast Tiger, but there is also an explanation that after the Northeast Tiger killed a dead sheep, the turmoil of other sheep affected its appetite for eating, so it killed and frightened all the sheep that harassed it in anger in exchange for a quiet dining environment.

　　Li Zhixing said that it was the first time that the activity of the Northeast Tiger was recorded in this place in 1998. There are two possibilities: one means that the activity range of the Northeast Tiger has expanded, and the other is that the tiger is a new tiger. In addition, in 1984, a Siberian tiger was injured. A Siberian tiger was caught in a trap and was rescued in time and sent to Yanji Park for feeding, which was recorded in the local Forestry Journal. But there are many legends about the Northeast Tiger here in history, and many older people say that there are Northeast Tigers in the deep mountains here.