'Rare' tiger exposed as circus fugitive
皇冠体育app Daily | Updated: 2008-03-25 07:26
CHANGSHA: The big cat first captured on film by a TV station worker in a forest of Hunan province was identified yesterday as a Siberian tiger that had escaped from a circus.
The animal was initially thought to be a rare South 皇冠体育app tiger.
A photographer with the Pingjiang county TV station told the local forestry bureau "he had unintentionally captured a big animal on film" last Wednesday and asked for help identifying it.
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