Hey it's Fang Yin. Sorry I was quite upset over the news the last time. I couldn't believe that Li Quan's own kind would do something like that to us. Maybe that's why my mother refused to tell me anything about the past.
But now I understand fully. It seems only I was shocked about what Li Quan told us. Apparently she has talked to us tigers about that many times over. I am one of the youngest tigers here in the reserve, so maybe it was not
that embarrassing.
It is true, we were proclaimed pests and were killed, but later in the years the humans banned hunting us, but by then it was too late.
But Li Quan didn't give up on us. She built this reserve, and are treating us with love and care. Quite a contrary to the past, now isn't it?
You know, the humans at first did quite weird things to us. Among our usual food, which I must say is quite dry and tasteless, they put in other objects. They taste better, though. I believe it is called "game".
After a few days of eating "game", they brought us live animals. They taste so much better. Sometimes they bring us to other places where we have to catch these animals ourselves.
The humans say they want us to go back into the wild. Maybe they are training us to catch these animals. In the wild I'm quite sure humans wouldn't go close to us, never mind feed us.
Sometimes they bring us to other places and sometimes some of us don't come back, particularly the adult tigers. Those that do come back tell us that they bring us to somewhere far, far away and teach us how to catch live animals more intensively. The humans there don't harm you. That's what those tigers say, anyway.
There are many groups of humans trying to help us. They are called "Save China's Tigers", "Wildlife Research Centre of the State Forestry Administration of China" and the "Chinese Tigers South Africa Trust". Long names, huh? How do I know all this? Li Quan told all of us yesterday. She seems kind of lonely, doesn't she? She's always talking to us nowadays.
Here are some sites about us:
http://www.ofcats.com/2008/09/south-chinese-tigers.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_China%27s_Tigershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Tiger#http://english.savechinastigers.org/http://www.tigers.ca/Foundation%20overview/TSCTP1.htmAnd here is Li Quan's own blog!
http://tigerliquan.blogspot.com/Oh I have to go! Li Quan is going to tell us more about these groups of humans. Oh wait I can hear her say something from here...What?!! A lie?!!!! Oh I
MUST GO!!!
Fang Yin
