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Mexico says it's closing in on tiger that escaped month ago
This undated photo released by the San Diego Zoo shows a female Malayan tiger named Tiga Tahun in her habitat at the San Diego Zoo
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This undated photo released by the San Diego Zoo shows a female Malayan tiger named Tiga Tahun in her habitat at the San Diego Zoo. (AP/San Diego Zoo/Ken Bohn) (AP)
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span class="inline inline-center">This undated photo released by the San Diego Zoo shows a female Malayan tiger named Tiga Tahun in her habitat at the San Diego Zoo. (AP/San Diego Zoo/Ken Bohn)
A
tiger named "Ankor" marked a full month on the run Wednesday, having
evaded capture since he escaped from a restaurant zoo and disappeared
into what appears to be a very tiger-friendly habitat on Mexico's
southern Pacific coast.
Mexican authorities have mounted a full-scale search effort including police, soldiers and a group of 10 big-cat experts.
They
are looking in an area of low woods dotted with marshes, reeds and
stands of button mangrove west of the resort of Acapulco.
The
country's environmental protection agency said Wednesday it had
identified the area where Ankor has taken up residence and had
photographed him alive, apparently by using remote trip-wire cameras.
The agency said it expected to capture the animal "in the next few days" and relocate him to a safe place.
Officials
have been making similar claims since the male tiger escaped from the
Mangrove Paradise zoo and restaurant area Oct. 26.
The week he
escaped, the owner of a ranch about a mile (two kilometers) from the
restaurant found five of his cows dead, and the tiger is suspected in
that case.
The environmental agency issued a statement saying it
"recommends that the population not approach" the area "given the
dangerousness of this Bengal tiger." (+)
