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Donkey Meat & Tiger Urine
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Anonymous  |  Posted: 投稿者： Anonymous 投稿日時： 木, 2005-09-08 13:18 | 件名: Donkey Meat & Tiger Urinehttp://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050908/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_china_tiger The cat is out of the bag at a restaurant in northeast China that had been serving donkey meat spiked with tiger urine in pricey dishes advertised as endangered Siberian tigers. Local media in Heilongjiang province got wind that the restaurant was offering stir-fried dishes and medicinal liquor made from tiger meat and bones, sparking local police and health inspectors to pounce, the China Daily said on Thursday. "After inspection, the owner confessed that the so-called tiger meat was donkey meat that had been dressed with tiger urine to give the dish a 'special' flavour," the newspaper said. The restaurant had been charging as much as 800 yuan (53.80 pounds) a dish for the illegal, "rare" fare, tapping into traditional Chinese belief that tiger meat has aphrodisiacal properties. The restaurant was shut down and fined and the director of the nearby Hengdaohezi Siberian Tiger Park, China's largest centre for breeding the highly endangered animals, reassured the public there was no way meat from its big cats had made its way to the dinner table, the newspaper said. Only a few hundred Siberian tigers are believed to be alive in the wild in their native habitats of northern China, southern Russia and parts of The report did not explain where the tiger urine had come from or how it was collected. |
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Siberian or Amur Tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) historically inhabited forests of eastern Asia, northern China, Korea and Manchuria. Siberian Tigers are found mostly in harsh and cold land, covered with snow for most of the year. The usual habitats of these animals are taiga and mixed deciduous and coniferous forests in mountain areas. The last viable population of Siberian Tigers survives in Ussuiland of Russia, which is situated along the Sikhote-Alin mountain range.
Siberian Tigers are truly carnivores and hunt big game: various deer and wild boars. Occasionally Siberian Tigers eat fish. Being very large animals they need about 20 lbs of food every day to survive in the cold climate. At one meal a Siberian Tiger is able to consume up to 100 lbs of meat. Like all cats, Siberian Tigers stalk the prey and when the changes of a success are rather great, they pounce on the victim, bite it to the neck and suffocate it. Tigers drag the kill and hide it from other predators on the trees. If the animals cannot eat all the prey, it takes a nap and then finishes the meal off.
Siberian Tigers have a reputation of being vicious killers, because they spend much time hunting. But this reputation is not true-to fact. Siberian Tigers have to cover large distances searching for prey. Only 10% of all hunting trips are successful and usually elderly, young or ill animals fall a prey of Siberian Tigers.