China’s Last Tiger Eaten

By Miss Cellania in Animals & Pets, Crime & Law on Dec 23, 2009 at 3:24 pm

There’s no way of knowing whether the tiger that made a meal for five men was really the last Indochinese tiger in China, but no one has seen any others in years. Kang Wannian of Yunnan Province in China claims he killed the tiger in self-defense last February. Then he ate it.

The only known wild Indochinese tiger in China, photographed in 2007 at the same reserve, has not been seen since Kang’s meal, the Yunnan-based newspaper Life News reported earlier this month.

The paper quoted the provincial Forestry Bureau as saying there was no evidence the tiger was the last one in China.

A local court sentenced Kang to 10 years for killing a rare animal plus two years for illegal possession of firearms, the local web portal Yunnan.cn reported. Prosecutors said Kang did not need a gun to gather clams.

Four villagers who helped Kang dismember the tiger and ate its meat were also sentenced from three to four years for “covering up and concealing criminal gains”, the report said.

The Indochinese tiger is on the brink of extinction, with small populations in Laos, Vietnam. Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma. Link -via Arbroath

(image credit: Cburnett)

Tags: China, endagered species, extinction, tiger

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anon1
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
There’s no way of knowing whether the tiger that made a meal for five men was really the last Indochinese tiger in China, but no one has seen any others in years.

Sure didn’t stop you from claiming so in your title, did it?

That and your source article has no authors. Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, does it?
mrweaver
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
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SEX TIGER
Made with real bits of tiger, so you know it’s good.
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zavatone
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I’d have that guy shot. But then I’m surprised the Chinese govt hasn’t done that.
Zeezaxa
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
That’s the smell of desire my lady.
emmiline
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
rare animals! let’s eat them! jesus, asia.
Colt Seaver
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Yeah, gee, there’s no way he might have actually shot it in self defense, seeing as he’s just a hungry peasant.
Splint Chesthair
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Yeah, let’s get a little perspective. It sucks for the tiger but Chinese peasants are too far removed from eating mud and dirt to survive. I’ll be honest. If I’m looking at my 3rd helping of mud for the day, I’ll kill a tiger.
dani
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
now i’m curious as to what tiger tastes like…
Cola
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Geez, splint, would you eat a baby, too? I mean, this isn’t about starvation, which isn’t going to be cured by eating the last known specimen of an almost extinct animal. Give a man a fish and all that.

Anyway, I always find these kinds of things funnier in theory than in practice. Everyone wonders what it would have been like to have dinosaurs around. I wonder how cool it would be to see a Tasmanian Tiger padding around.
m
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Indeed, eating a tiger is the same as eating a baby.
m
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
And indeed, it isn’t about starvation as ENDANGERED SPECIES DON’T EAT is written on the animal with huge Chinese letters. So what the poor peasant did is completely a deliberate provocation to harm our environment.
Noelegy
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 9:53 pm
If this is true, it’s awful.

On the other hand, it reminds me of the packaging for Tiger Balm liniment, which helpfully reminds you that no tiger parts were used.
LisaL
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 10:29 pm
How awful. Starving my ass. How about selling the gun and buying yourself a damn meal.

Damn idiotic asian beliefs that have them killing every freaking thing b/c they think it’s a “get my wang nice and hard” cure or some such nonsense.
Flux
Dec 23rd, 2009 at 10:38 pm
There are 250 Humans born every minute (or so)… Humans are highly territorial (get off mah lawn!), highly aggressive (Oh mah gawd, kill it!), predators (except you veggie types).

What does that mean?

It means Bye-bye Tigers, Bears, lions, Wolves, Gators, sharks, killer whales, etc.

Competition for food sources is not an option. Being threatening is not an option. What is an option? Extinction for non-compliance. Conservation outlook – not so hawt.
Maxie
Dec 24th, 2009 at 5:01 am
How does anyone know he didn’t kill the tiger in self-defense?

Maybe the reason he was carrying a gun to kill clams was because there was a frikkin gigantic tiger on the lose! That’s enough to make me want to carry a gun.
Christophe
Dec 24th, 2009 at 6:59 am
Mmmmmmm…. Tigerrrrr….
Foreigner1
Dec 24th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Maxie because they didn’t see any tigers in ages that went after humans because the tigers have shyed away from human areas for all that time? So that would be like you going into high-risk neighborhoods all dressed up fancy rich and then scream murder if you get mugged and claim you only acted in self-defense…
ajw123
Dec 24th, 2009 at 11:03 am
RE: LisaL, and emmiline

Your comments are very disturbing and racist. Westerners have eaten a TON of animals into extinction. Many cultures have eaten animals into extinction. It is not just a “damn idiotic asian belief.”

So let’s pretend to use our brains for two second. Here are the facts, the man was caught. The man was placed into jail for 10 years. Obviously, not all Asians found eating the tiger acceptable, since he was placed in jail. So, Emmiline, your statement of “jesus, asia” is an incorrect generalization.

Just because we eat processed meat from a meat farm does not make us more civilized. Also, judging by your two comments, we have a lot farther to go.

Regards,
Andrew

PS: Wang in Chinese is pronounced Wong, which means king. The Chinese word for penis is GeeGee. Therefore, LisaL, I have no idea why your imaginary character would be trying to make his king nice and hard.
Victor P
Dec 24th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Foreigner,

Yes, because God forbid a rich person accidentally find him/herself in a high-risk neighborhood and actually defend him/herself against a mugger with lethal force. That would be unthinkable!

We would all agree- just let the tiger eat us, after all, it is endangered! What has become of the world that some can even consider valuing their own personal welfare above an animal’s! Thank God the Communists had the good sense of handing down a combined near 30 year sentence for this heinous crime. Clearly, this is much worse than rape or manslaughter.

m,

you are a hoot!
Foreigner1
Dec 24th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Me a hoot…? Tooot!!!! Sure…

No in such countries it is very well known what punishments will follow such crimes. And If you can’t do the time- don’t do the crime. Every kid knows- Listen to your parents if you don’t want to get their punishments or else be prepared to suffer their ruling, howver stupid that might be. Every Chinese knows that the authorities can as well be corrupt as that it can be overly strict and harsh. So they got very lucky that the Chinese government didn’t execute them for this mistake if only for international Public Relations on the part of wildlife preservation…
And like I said- If one gets strict orders not to get into confrontation with an enemy or some other danger- just don’t go there if you don’t want to get into trouble from either the enemy or danger OR from the authority that gave you the order not to get into trouble in the 1st place.
angstrom
Dec 24th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
For those curious what Tiger tastes like, its a little bit like Panda.

Lovely with a spicy Dodo sauce
GailW
Dec 30th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Was the tiger at least delicious?
Zaulankris
Jan 6th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Ugh, tigers > peasants. I may not be popular for voicing that, but there are an awful lot of people and not an awful lot of tigers.

Glad he got prison time as a reward for this.

And yes, I am being serious.
BigGameHunter
Apr 13th, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Man I was on safari and we ate everything we shot, zebra, lion cub, everything, the real crime here is that the poor man and his friends were sent to jail for killing an animal.

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