{"id":153442,"date":"2025-09-22T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/153442\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:38:11","slug":"massive-tigers-awesome-ferocity-on-display-during-release-back-into-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/153442\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive tigers\u2019 awesome ferocity on display during release back into wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Big Cat Project on Saturday shared footage of two Amur tigers reacting to their impending freedom with astonishing fury as their cage doors slid open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The footage, posted below, shows both tigers, in separate cages, swatting and biting the doors in a snarling display that underscores why the rehab team remained inside its vehicles during the release.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Amur tigers released back into the wild.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/61c80bcf88729eb2098b6fe1ea4aa851.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amur tigers released back into the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The brother and sister Amur tigers were rehabbed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/amur-tiger.ru\/en?filter=all\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Amur Tiger Center;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Amur Tiger Center<\/a> in Russia. The footage was first shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wildrussiantour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bohai Tour Wildlife Adventures;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bohai Tour Wildlife Adventures<\/a> in May. (It was not clear what required the cats to be captured and rehabbed.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On follower remarked, \u201cNow Imagine hiking around the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/cheetahs-bullied-baby-warthog-tourists-161620942.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:ALSO: Tourists in disbelief as cheetahs are &#039;bullied&#039; by baby warthog;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALSO: Tourists in disbelief as cheetahs are &#8216;bullied&#8217; by baby warthog<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Amur tigers, or Siberian tigers, are the largest of tiger subspecies. They inhabit the forests of eastern Russia and northeastern China, and are well-adapted to exist in harsh winters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As formidable as they might seem, they\u2019re threatened by poaching and habitat loss. Their current population is estimated at between 500 and 600 animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Big Cat Project stated: \u201cTheir future is still uncertain, and protecting their forests, supporting breeding programs, and continuing conservation efforts are vital to securing the survival of these majestic predators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/09\/21\/massive-amur-tigers-ferocity-display-release-back-into-wild\/86278699007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Massive Amur tigers\u2019 ferocity on display during release back into wild;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Massive Amur tigers\u2019 ferocity on display during release back into wild<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Big Cat Project on Saturday shared footage of two Amur tigers reacting to their impending freedom with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[70393,90,56718,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-153442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-amur-tigers","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-tigers","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}