▲ A tiger from Mt. Baekdu caught in broad daylight in Hunchun, China. 2021.12.22 Hiker Newspaper Capture
The nocturnal Mt. Baekdu tiger (Chinese name: Northeast tiger) appeared in broad daylight, so a clear image was captured on camera.
On the 20th, Baidu, a Chinese search site, uploaded a video of a tiger from Mt. Baekdu taken on a mountain road in Hunchun, China.
The 36-second video, which appears to have been shot with a mobile phone inside the vehicle, shows a tiger clearly captured.
When a tiger was blocking the road, the photographer said, “I am a local. Get out of the way,” he shouted. The tiger got up, took a seat among the trees by the roadside, and lay down without taking an aggressive stance until a vehicle passed by.
▲ A tiger from Mt. Baekdu caught in broad daylight in Hunchun, China. 2021.12.22 Hiker Newspaper Capture
About the situation at the time, the photographer said, “We met on the hill returning from the top of the mountain.” “It was the first time I saw a tiger, and the closest was only 2 meters away, but I wasn’t nervous.”
Jilin Province and Heilongjiang Province, along the North Korean-Russian border, are colonies of wild Baekdu mountain tigers. There are not a few cases of wild tigers breaking into private houses and attacking residents and eating livestock such as cattle and pigs.
As it is nocturnal, the appearance of a tiger in Mt. Baekdu, which is mainly active at night, is often captured on CCTV installed for wildlife observation, but it is extremely rare that a clear image like this video is captured in broad daylight.
Reporter Minji Kim mink@seoul.co.kr
