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Hard to watch: A tiger attacked and killed a woman who got out of the vehicle/documentation from social networks
Chilling footage shows the moment a young woman was dragged by a tiger, seconds before her mother was killed by the predator in an attempt to save her.
What started as a family affair at the Badaling Wildlife Park in Beijing, China ended in tragedy after the woman, identified in the original media only as Ms. Zhao, got out of the car to insult her partner who was sitting in the driver's seat - when the vehicle was inside the Siberian tiger enclosure.
However, some reports suggest that the family simply thought they had left the compound where the tigers were kept.
As soon as she got out of the car, a huge Siberian tiger pounced on the young woman and you can see in the photos how he drags her to the right.
Her partner and her mother also left the car in order to rescue her.
However, a second tiger immediately attacked and dragged the elderly woman to her death, despite the rescue efforts of the park guards.
Bedling's crew managed to rescue the daughter alive, and she was taken to hospital with severe neck injuries, but her mother was killed instantly.
The park was ordered to suspend all operations by the separate Yangqing authorities after the incident (which took place in July 2016 but whose documentation recently went viral).
An investigation later determined that the incident was not the fault of park management and the venue resumed operations in November, although self-driving tours are now prohibited.
The surviving daughter has since sued the park to pay her compensation in the amount of 1.25 million yuan (about NIS 650,000) intended to cover her mother's funeral costs, the living expenses of her dependent family members and comfort compensation for other family members.
This is what the moments of horror looked like
The park, which covers 6,000 dunams and is located near a famous part of the Great Wall of China, allows its visitors to travel through various animal enclosures, and this is not the first time that serious safety problems have arisen - in 2014, a security guard who got out of his patrol car was fatally injured by a Bengal tiger, and in 2016 A park worker was killed by an elephant.
Siberian tigers are the largest tigers in the world, with Bengals ranking second largest.
In fact, the Siberian tiger is the largest in the cat and cat-like family in general, with only hybrid cats such as the liger being larger than it.
They were listed as Critically Endangered before 2008 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) but were later upgraded to Endangered when their conservation efforts bore fruit.
However, the recovery of the tiger population is slow due to continuous poaching, a decrease in the size and quality of their natural habitats due to logging and forest fires, a decrease in prey populations and a lack of genetic diversity in the subspecies caused by overhunting.
The main reasons for the depletion of tigers are the destruction of their natural habitats (forests and grasslands) and hunting for the use of their fur and the production of idol medicines from their organs.
According to Bivash Pandav, in traditional Chinese medicine, special virtues are attributed to the bones of tigers.
"There is a huge demand for these bones," explained Bivash Pandav, a tiger expert from the Wildlife Protection Fund, "and the attempt to respond to it by hunting without a permit is the immediate reason for the decrease in the number of tigers."
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Pandav pointed out that in the Chinese market the value of a dead tiger can reach tens of thousands of dollars, and that there is also a great demand for tiger products in the US.
Thousands of tigers are currently being raised in parks throughout China, but nature experts insist that such breeding programs only slightly help the recovery of wild populations and sometimes provide cover for the illegal trade in animal parts, which undoubtedly contributes to their being in danger of extinction.
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