KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 \u2014 Residents in Kluang, Johor, have been urged to remain cautious after a video showing a tiger near a plantation area close to Kampung Rahmat, Sri Lalang, surfaced yesterday.<\/p>\n
The tiger was believed to have been recorded by a plantation owner who was on his way to pick up a worker not far from the location, Harian Metro reported today.<\/p>\n
According to reports, they first heard a noise before spotting the tiger crossing in front of their four-wheel-drive vehicle as they travelled along a dirt road leading to the plantation.<\/p>\n
The animal disappeared briefly before reappearing behind nearby bushes close to the residents\u2019 plantations.<\/p>\n
Johor Health and Environment Committee chairman Ling Tian Soon confirmed that the Johor Department of Wildlife and National Parks (Perhilitan) had received a report on the sighting.<\/p>\n
He said Perhilitan officers had already gone to the location to conduct further investigations.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone who encounters wildlife should not attempt to approach or disturb the animal as it may pose a danger.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease keep a safe distance from the area and report the sighting immediately to the police or Perhilitan,\u201d he said when contacted.<\/p>\n
Earlier, a 1 minute 36 second video circulating online showed the tiger moving slowly through bushes near the area.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 \u2014 Residents in Kluang, Johor, have been urged to remain cautious after a video…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,31992,263538,2819,97843,201547,128,263539,338],"class_list":["post-530480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-johor","tag-kampung-rahmat","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-ling-tian-soon","tag-perhilitan","tag-science","tag-sri-lalang","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}