Thread: Russian tiger befriends goat instead of eating it

Animal activists have reportedly called on an animal park in Russia to separate a goat from a tiger that befriended it instead of eating it.
The goat, since named Timur, was given to the tiger Amur (another name for Siberian tigers) as live food.



The Far Eastern Safari Park, in the Primorsky region bordering the Sea of Japan and North Korea, said it gives predators twice-weekly meals of live animals.

"Tiger Amur knows very well how to hunt goats and rabbits," a keeper told the Siberian Times.

"But recently he came across a goat that he refused to hunt."
Instead, Timur chased Amur out of his sleeping quarters, banishing him to sleeping on the shelter's roof.

Amur hissed at an employee who feeds the tigers, as if to tell him, 'Hey, don't you ever approach my friend'

Far Eastern Wildlife Park zookeeper

"We think that the goat never came across tigers and no-one taught him to be scared of them," the keeper said.

Videos uploaded by the park to YouTube show Timur staying close to Amur, following him around the enclosure, and enforcing their new sleeping arrangements.

Timur was named in honour of his bravery, after the lead character in popular Communist-era children's book Timur And His Squad.
He is being fed hay, wheat, feedstuff and water every day, Russian news website RT reported.

Timur's fans call on zoo to separate them

Despite the peaceful cohabitation, fans of Timur the goat have called on the zoo to separate them for Timur's safety, RT said.
Visitors to the zoo's website have left messages calling the goat "sensational" and saying "he has earned the right to live".

One visitor, Bogdan, wrote: "Let his story be not only about the compassion the tiger showed towards the brave goat, but about people showing humanism too."

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."

Tiger befriends goat instead of eating it; activists urge zoo to break up unlikely pair - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)


"enforcing their new sleeping arrangements"

Would be the final humiliation if the goat started shagging the tiger!

Leaving the goat alive for now likely means the tiger wants his future snack fresh. Tigers don't have freezers in their cages.

Was the Tiger called Betski by any chance....

Amur eat the goat FFS , sorry Bettyboo ,

Russian lawyer accuses unlikely animal chums of 'gay propaganda'

Amur the tiger was meant to eat Timur the goat, but now they’re firm friends a lawyer has said coverage of their relationship promotes an LGBT lifestyle.



Russian prosecutors have begun considering whether media coverage of the unexpected friendship between a male tiger and goat at a safari park in the country’s far east counts as gay propaganda.

Novosibirsk lawyer Alexei Krestyanov complained to the prosecutor general last month that information about the animals living together could harm children by provoking “interest in non-traditional sexual relations”.

“I think the positive coverage of this topic is nothing less than interference in the personal lives of minors, which is what hidden propaganda is, and public, active imposition of homosexuality,” Krestyanov wrote.

The prosecutor’s office in the Primorsky region, which borders China and North Korea, has said it has begun checking Krestyanov’s allegations.

The two animals became minor national celebrities in November when Timur the goat, who was meant to be a live snack for Amur the Siberian tiger, instead took over the enclosure at a safari park near Vladivostok, forcing the tiger to sleep on the roof of his own lean-to. The media was soon full of footage of the two playing together, and Timur’s fans have even begun a campaign to elect him to parliament, arguing that he would be braver and more honest than current MPs.

Timur has been in the care of a veterinarian since late January after he tried to headbutt Amur, who took him by the neck with his fangs and gave him a shaking.

Although Krestyanov cited a children’s rights law in his complaint, his language echoed that of the law against gay propaganda passed in 2012 amid President Vladimir Putin’s growing emphasis on traditional values.

Russian lawyer accuses unlikely animal chums of 'gay propaganda' | World news | The Guardian

Originally Posted by Looper

Russian lawyer accuses unlikely animal chums of 'gay propaganda'

Sounds likie the kind of thing we'd hear reported in Thailand.
I never thought russians to be so looney.

^ They're scared shitless of gays, Dawg...Putin wants them all dead...

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

^ They're scared shitless of gays, Dawg...Putin wants them all dead...

Yeah, but for an official to think there is some sexual connotation to a bizarre relationship between predator and prey is just nuts.

Yeah, that part is Thai-worthy, indeed...