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Madonna Giving Birth

Video Eleven
327 Adapting Well

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Cathay giving birth for a 2nd time
South China Tiger Cathay has again given birth in South Africa. This time two cubs were born. Cathay is rearing the cubs herself, and they are all doing very well.

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Tigerwoods Junior - Life in Lory Park
The tiger cub, TigerWoods Junior, had been born in South Africa two months ago. He is very healthy and growing quickly. Every day the tiger cub drinks 600 ml milk and has already begun to eat eggs and chicken. He now weighs 7.5 kg.

The tiger cub has shown his independent nature and is very naughty. He has also demonstrated the wild side of the South China tiger and often "attacks" his toy, towel and carpet. Before he chews his "prey" (such as toys, chicken breasts) he would shake them dramatically in his mouth.

The South China tiger cub, as the first born of Cathay and TigerWoods - both under rewilding training at Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa, has received great attention from all over the world.

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South China Tiger Giving Birth

(Laohu Valley Reserve, South Africa) Ms Li Quan, founder of Save China's Tigers today announced that a male South China tiger cub was born at Laohu Valley Reserve, Free State, South Africa at 23:30, November 23rd 2007. It is truly a historic event, because it is the first time that a South China Tiger has been born outside of China. Only around 60 South China Tigers exist in captivity and less than 30 survive in the wild.

This video shows the whole process of Cathay giving birth to her first cub. Visit http://english.savechinastigers.org/gallery to view more pictures of the new born cub.

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Tiger Tackle Antelope(Remix Version)

The hero of this video is Hope, one of the pioneer tigers in the South China Tiger Rewilding & Reintroduction program. Hope unfortunately died of lung disease and heart failure in August 2005 but he left us with this fantastic memory of him.

On March 15th 2005, Hope and Cathay embarked on their first day of rewilding training after their radio collaring. Three antelope were released that day.

Cathay tackled the first one and Hope came to her assistance quickly. For some reason, the tigers seem to have trouble delivering a fatal bite to the antelope today. It could be that they still suffer some side effect from the anaesthesias as they were panting heavily, as if lacking the strength. On a couple of occasions, Cathay held the antelope in a way almost like embracing a pet.

Afterwards Hope went after a second one which jumped left and right and up and down. At one point, Hope’s front paws were holding onto to it while his hind legs were jerked off the ground by the frantic antelope. He managed to push the antelope down to the ground. However, before he finished off this antelope, his eyes suddenly caught the sight of the third running antelope and went after it with Cathay. Hope gave up after a little while being too tired.

In the meantime, the second antelope was crouching in the grass. Hope slowly walked back to it. When he got close, the antelope struggled to stand up. Although its right hind leg injured, he was still able to stand. Hope was a bit taken aback when the antelope confronted him in a challenging position. With the pair of horns right in his face, he looked unsure of himself. For quite some time, the tiger and the antelope were staring at one another eye to eye. Hope even backed down a few steps to avoid being poked in the face.

Hope kept looking away- was he looking for Cathay in order to get help? Feeling lost? Or buying time? He started circling around the antelope, but the antelope turned to face him with its horns no matter which direction Hope turned and challenged Hope. Hope was visibly irritated by the antelope’s action and the next move the antelope made proved to be fatal -Hope jumped up with a swirl of his body and pushed down the antelope with both his paws and a bite on its neck- He had avoided the sharp horns and proved that he had been just waiting for the antelope to make a fatal mistake.

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Cathay's Fantastic Hunt (Remix Version)

It is a battle between a South China tiger named Cathay, a young antelope, its mother & sibling, at Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa.

Tigers Cathay (the one with Radio Collar), TigerWoods and Madonna were h unting the gorup of antelop called Blesbok. Cathay however split off and disappeared into a gully. When TigerWoods got quite close to one antelope he started to chase. The antelope crossed over the gully and back in the direction towards where Cathay had been crouching low, not knowing that she has been hiding in the grass waiting for them.

Tigers Cathay (the one with Radio Collar), TigerWoods and Madonna were hunting the gorup of antelop called Blesbok. Cathay however split off and disappeared into a gully. When TigerWoods got quite close to one antelope he started to chase. The antelope crossed over the gully and back in the direction towards where Cathay had been crouching low, not knowing that she has been hiding in the grass waiting for them. Cathay singled out a young antelope-about 8 week old and in a split second, leapt out and cuaght hold of it but it wriggled out of her grasp. The Tiger managed to snatch it again, back and forth a few times. The strange thing was that Cathay (who we thought was TigerWoods initally due to the distance) could have easily killed the small antelope but she did not. She seemed to be playing with it.

Meanwhile the mother of the young tried to save its child! She and another charged back and forth at Cathay in an extraordinary action. Perhaps it was motivated by maternal instinct, or perhaps it simply under-estimated the ability of the tigers, having successfully escaped from being hunted in the past year. However its action finally cost it its life.

When Cathay seemed to be playing Catch & Release, the mother antelope came charging back at the tiger. Cathay, in a most unexpected move of lightening speed, let go the young and grabbed the mother. The antelop was however very stoic and stood stiff as Cathay tried to topple her using the force of her mouth, but it took the tiger quite a while to drop the antelop. Only then was Cathay able to deliver the final bite.
The young antelope meanwhile, had run away! It appears its mother's sacrifice had saved her child. WE saw it reunited with the antelope group two days later.

Two things are extraordinary: First, an antelope mother does not try to save her offspring in the wild very often, knowing she would be no match for a predator. Second, Cathay could have easily killed the young antelope but instead she played with it. Was it because she was using it to attract the bigger one, or because her maternal instinct told her to capture the young antelope alive for the younger tigers so they could practice hunting by playing with it, just like big cat mothers in the wild?

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Cathay Hunt (Full Length Version)

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Cathay Snatch Ostrich

Cathay saw an Ostrich chick that got trapped in between the electrified trip-wire and the electrified fences (God knows how it got there!) of the hunting training camps. Cathay waited. Patience is her wisdom and Distraction is her strategy. The Ostrich froze but just when it thought Cathay was yawning therefore absent-minded - it made the tiny, but wrong move! Cathay snatched it from under the tripwire and served herself a quick afternoon snack.

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Save China's Tigers Promo