![]() Tommy Caldwell: He sounded very serious and just said, "I think you guys need to come down here." Tom Foreman: And in short order, he radioed back up … Tommy Caldwell: John volunteered to go down and see what was going on. Tom Foreman: You had two other people with you-John and Jason. And they were getting pretty close, so John volunteered to go down. Tommy Caldwell: We were looking through our camera lenses, and we could see them waving to us and they kept shooting at us. Tom Foreman: People at the bottom of the mountain were shooting at you and motioning for you to come down. It is hard to imagine them, strapped into portable sleeping ledges, a thousand feet in the air …īeth Rodden: We were woken by three gunshots that came very near to where we were sleeping. Footage courtesy: Amur Tiger Center/WWF Russia Īlthough they are in their mid-twenties, they look much younger … like teenagers … as they walk into my studio. Their numbers collapsed in the 1930s but have since rebounded and there are an estimated 360 left in the wild. Siberian tigers, also called Amur tigers, are the largest of their species and can reach 13 feet in length and weigh up to 660 pounds. He's about three years old and weighs approximately 300 pounds. After undergoing rehabilitation, he was released in Bikin National Park, far away from any human settlements. Eventually he was sedated and captured by wildlife rangers. In 2016, Vladik was spotted roaming the busy streets of Vladivostok, Russia. ![]() See a rare Siberian tiger returned to the wild.
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