Sumatran tiger loses paw in hunter's snare

Sumatran tiger loses paw in hunter's snare

Hilary Osborne
Friday July 6, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Three-legged Sumatran tiger caught on camera by WWF. Photograph: Olivier van Bogaert/WWF-Indonesia

A rare Sumatran tiger that appears to have lost a paw while escaping a hunter's snare has been caught on camera in an Indonesian national park.

The male tiger, which is missing the lower half of his right front leg, is seen in four photographs released by conservation group WWF.

The pictures were taken in March inside Tesso Nilo National Park in central Sumatra; the same tiger was photographed again in May in the park's forest.