West Sumatra Animal Hospital: Sacrificial Batang Breaks The Cause Of Death Of Tigers In Agam

Veterinarians at the West Sumatra Veterinary Hospital are carrying out a necropsy tiger that died as a result of being entangled in a pig, Friday (26/7/2024) in the morning. ANTARA/Yusrizal.

JAKARTA - The head of the West Sumatra Province Animal Hospital (West Sumatra) Idham Fahmi said the death of a Sumatran tiger or panthera tigris sumatrae in Sigarungtang or Sungai Pua Village, Agam Regency, due to a prone bone in a trakea or a broken throat stem. "Before opening it during necropsy, we found that the trakea prone bone had broken due to a hyferemic tromage or blood flowing more than usual, so we suspected the death threshold due to respiratory failure," he said in Padang, Friday, July 26, was confiscated by Antara. He said the breath failure was caused by an object wrapped around the neck of the female tiger, so that the air from outside to the lungs could not flow. As a result, the Sumatran tiger experienced shortness of breath and die. "Udara cannot enter the lungs, so tigers experience shortness of breath and death," he said.

He added that the West Sumatra Animal Hospital sent several samples of tiger organs to the Bukittinggi Veterinary Laboratory. The organs sent consisted of tiger trakea due to the strong suspicion of hiferemic troma, lung organs because there were several abnormalities in the organs from anatomical pathology, so it needed to be confirmed in histopologies or procedures involving examination of the intact tissue at the Bukittinggi Veterinary Laboratory. In addition, there were also abnormalities in the liver. For further confirmation, they will be taken to the Bukittinggi Veterinary Laboratory, so that the discovery of the initial diagnosis of the tiger can be scientific and can be accounted for. "The results can be submitted to the West Sumatra BKSDA and the results will be consulted to the veterinarian of the West Sumatra Animal Hospital," he said. According to him, the tiger is estimated to be three to four years old based on the findings of its legislative teeth. "This means that the animal is teenagers towards adulthood and has never given birth based on reproductive organs," he said.

Previously, the animals protected by Law Number 5 of 1990 concerning Conservation of Biological Natural Resources and their Ecosystems died as a result of being entangled in Sigaruntang, Jorong Sungai Pua, Nagari or Sungai Pua Village, Palembayan District, Agam Regency, Thursday, July 25. Harimau was first caught in a pig snare in the neck, it was discovered that a resident named Simar while he was in his fields. Simar initially suspected that the entangled was a pig, then he went straight to the location. Arriving at the location, Simar saw an entangled tiger, and immediately informed the local residents. Furthermore, the Mayor of Nagari or the Head of Sungai Pua Village reported the findings to the BKSDA at around 16.00 WIB. "We received the report, we immediately dispatched officers from the Resorvation Area I Panti, Resort Conservation Region II Maninjau and Marapi Singgalang Conservation Resort to the location," said Head of Section I Section of the Regional I Conservation Section of the West Sumatra BKSDA Antonius Vevri. He said officers reached the Pua River at around 18.30 WIB and went straight to the location. At around 19.10 WIB the tiger was dead.

"We immediately evacuated the students together with the Nagari Children Patrol Team (Pagari) and residents. Animals were taken to the West Sumatra Animal Hospital in Padang for necropsy to determine the cause of death apart from being entangled," he said.