Easy
... Tiger
Yesterday, an elderly cow
herder living in a remote village in
China’s northeast Jilin Province got up
early at 5 as he always does, and drove
his cattle to the grazing land at the
bank of Tumen River. When he passed a
woods about 300 metres from the village,
he heard the sound of beast howl, and
within a second he was pounded down hard
on his back by a tiger. The cattle were
all petrified and bellowed like mad and
fled the scene at high speed, which
somehow made the tiger petrified, and
fled back into the woods without his
meal.
Wild Dongbei
Tiger (野生东北虎)
When other cow herders
rushed to his rescue, all they saw was
blood all over and the footprints left by
the wild beast. The elderly man is
reported has a stable condition and
expected to recover soon.
A footprint
of the tiger
Recently there are several
incidents of mysterious disappearance of
cattle and sighting of the footprints
typical of Wild Dongbei Tigers (野生东北虎).
But it is the first time in decades that
a tiger directly attacked human.
Life
Expectancy in China
The latest official
figures show that the average life
expectancy for Beijing residents is 80
years, the longest in China. Five years
ago it was 76 yeas.
Between year 2000 and
2004, the average life span for Chinese
increases by 0.1 per cent each year,
while the increase rate among Beijing
residents is a record 1 per cent.
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