I have written about this case on a number of occasions most notably in my autobiography
Monster Hunter (2004) and in an article for the
newsletter of the Ecology Department of Hong Kong University
The blackened skin of the last tiger shot in Hong Kong is displayed at the Tin Hau Temple in Stanley on Hong Kong Island. The tiger was bagged outside the local police station in 1942 by officer Ruh Singh. The beast weighed in at 240 pounds and was 73 inches long, standing 3 feet tall.
Hong Kong was under Japanese occupation at the time.
http://beijingvisitor.blogspot.com/2009/02/last-tiger-shot-in-hong-kong.html
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In November Sahar Dimus, our guide on four CFZ Sumatra expeditions, died of liver failure leaving a widow Lucy and four Children. On the 2nd November, Dezyama D. Sangma, wife of our friend and colleague Dipu Marak, our collaborator on the 2010 Indian expedition died, leaving her grieving husband and two small children.
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What a sad thing - that a species should be reduced to a single blackened skin hanging in a museum :-(
It's not in a museum; it's in a Taoist temple - but nobody seemed to be leaving incense sticks in front of it.
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