by Russian tiger befriends brave goat instead of ᴇᴀᴛɪɴɢ it
This is the heartwarming story of a very unusual friendship between Amur the tiger and Timur the goat. The two became friends after Timur was given to Amur while still alive as food. Instead they befriended each other and decided to spend their time playing, ʜᴜɴᴛɪɴɢ and just having fun all together.
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 ᴘʀᴇᴅᴀᴛᴏʀs twice-weekly meals of live animals.”Tiger Amur knows very well how to ʜᴜɴᴛ goats and rabbits,” a keeper told the Siberian Times.”But recently he came across a goat that he refused to ʜᴜɴᴛ.” Instead, Timur chased Amur out of his sleeping quarters, banishing him to sleeping on the shelter’s roof. “We think that the goat never came across tigers and no-one taught him to be sᴄᴀʀᴇᴅ of them,” the keeper said. 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.
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.
The pair have stuck together, even while Amur continues to show displays of his ᴘʀᴇᴅᴀᴛᴏʀʏ instinct: “We still feed Amur live ᴘʀᴇʏ twice a week, but we don’t give him goats anymore out of respect for Timur.” It is completely down to Timur’s bravery, he was never taught to ꜰᴇᴀʀ tigers and therefore did not exhibit any ᴄᴏᴡᴀʀᴅʟʏ behavior, “the tiger was confused and gave up.”
