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Dramatic footage showsTiger CAUGHT Attacking A video camera
- Published_at:2013-01-22
- Category:Entertainment
- Channel:mrabet farid
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- description: If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be eaten by a tiger, then think no further. Footage captured at a safari park in south west England shows the moment a big cat pounces on its prey - from the victim's perspective. But have no fear, the victim is a remote video camera hidden in the snow at Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire. Unsurprisingly, seven-year-old Soundari didn't like the taste of the two inch wide GoPro camera and spat it out. Staff at Longleat had earlier entered the enclosure when the four resident Siberian tigers were locked in, to build two snowmen in the snow for them to play with. They embedded one video camera in the shoulder of one 6ft snowman and a second in the snow on the ground. The keepers also shot some more footage from the safety of their 4x4 parked nearby. The pictures show the inquisitive tigers at first sniffing around the snowmen before they playfully demolish them. They also capture two of the creatures on their hind legs play-fighting. Steve Mytton, a spokesman for Longleat, said: 'We set the cameras to record and jumped back in the Jeep 20 metres away after the tigers had been let out. 'They had seen us just spent an hour building the snowmen and as soon as they were out they made a beeline for them. 'They surrounded them and one or two jumped up at the taller one. 'Then Soundari saw the camera in the ground and went to eat it. She tried to pick it up in her jaws but decided she didn't like it and dropped it. 'The camera was still working when we retried it later and we couldn't quite believe the quality of the footage. 'It must be unique footage showing the inside of a tiger's mouth and what it must be life to be its helpless prey. We have never seen footage like it before. 'It was also very useful as it gave us the opportunity to do a quick health check on Soundari's mouth, gums and teeth.' Soundari is one of four Amur Siberian tigers that are kept at Longleat. The other three are Svelti and Shouri and Turlock, a male.
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