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Escaped tiger captured on Mexican side of border, Reynosa mayor says
By Sandra Sanchez,
3 hours ago
McALLEN, Texas ( Border Report ) — After nearly a week on the lam, a tiger that had escaped from a zoo in the Mexican border town of Reynosa has been safely captured, Mexican officials announced Tuesday.
“The feline was caught without injuries thanks to the joint work of the Environmental Directorate and Protección Civil y Bomberos Reynosa who set a trap last night,” Peña Ortiz said in the post.
Several government agencies had been working with the Quinta La Fauna zoo stepping up law enforcement patrols and placing traps after the animal escaped from the zoo on Sept. 4.
Officials in South Texas also had been concerned that the animal would cross the Rio Grande.
tiger that had escaped from a zoo in the Mexican border town of Reynosa has been safely captured. (City of Reynosa)
Photos posted to Facebook by the City of Reynosa show Peña Ortiz posing with zoo officials and others after speaking to Mexican media, and there are pictures of a tiger in a cage lying down that was pulled behind a truck.
Tigers are nocturnal and mostly active and hunt at night. Traps were set up throughout areas with high vegetation on the southern banks of the Rio Grande where officials had been trying to lure the animal.
“The tiger is in good health and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office for Environmental Protection, PROFEPA, has already been notified. The animal is expected to be transferred to the Victoria City Zoo, where it will receive the specialized care it needs,” the City of Reynosa post says.
Officials in South Texas had been worried that the tiger would swim across the Rio Grande and cross the border into the United States.
Tigers can swim up to 7 miles per day, and the Rio Grande is only about 50 yards across at that location. But according to reports, it doesn’t appear the tiger left Mexico.
Sandra Sanchez can be reached at SSanchez@BorderReport.com.
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