Northern Mexico has evolved this sort of addiction of unique animals and violence, that folks no longer simplest stay tigers as pets, they thieve them.
Prosecutors in the violent northern state of Sonora mentioned Tuesday they’re looking for a full-grown Bengal tiger named Baluma. They mentioned the 5-year-old male tiger used to be stolen Monday from a home in the state capital, Hermosillo.
Prosecutors dispensed footage of the large cat resting in its cage along a canine, hoping citizens will telephone police in the event that they see the tiger.
Authorities mentioned the house owners had the correct forms had to stay the animal.
Mexico has lengthy had an issue with folks protecting – and now and again dropping regulate of – huge cats, which might be every so often discovered at drug traffickers’ flats and are now and again noticed wandering unfastened.
Mexican narcos have lengthy had a fascination with unique animals.
Last 12 months, a spider monkey dressed up as a drug gang mascot used to be discovered shot to dying after a gunbattle. Photos from the scene of a shootout in Texcaltitlan with police in which 11 drug gang individuals died, confirmed a small monkey – dressed in a tiny camouflage jacket and a tiny “bullet-proof” vest – sprawled around the frame of a lifeless gunman who used to be it sounds as if his proprietor.
Also ultimate 12 months, a 450-pound tiger wandered the streets in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, and a person died from being mauled when he attempted to puppy a captive tiger in a cartel-dominated space of western Michoacan state.
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