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High of the tiger

They may be more majestic than lions, and more powerful than leopards but tigers are supposed to come from a branch of the big cat family that hates climbing.

But no-one seems to have told Siberian Tiger Lao-Lao who has amazed his keepers by earning his stripes as a climber.

Lao-Lao developed a taste for heights when he realised that keepers stashed chickens in the branches of the tall trees in Jiufeng Forestry Zoo in Wuhan, eastern China, to make feeding time more natural for agile leopards.

So the hungry cheater decided to show his rivals he could knock spots off them any day when it came to scaling the heights.

"He is not so graceful getting down but once he smells that chicken, nothing stops him," said one keeper.

Austrian Times

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