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A conservation-type Taiwanese black bear started last night at 8 o’clock and accidentally hit the “Mountain Boar Hanging” orchard trap. His left forelimb was caught by a thick steel rope. He was excited and wanted to break free. He kept roaring and bit the ring with his mouth. He reluctantly wanted to bite the left forefoot and wanted to get out of trouble. The bite was full of blood and the palm spattered with blood, but he couldn’t escape. It wasn’t until 2:30 p.m. that he fell to the ground after two shots from the nurse’s anesthesia needle. At 18.5 hours, he was finally rescued.
Personnel inspections at the scene found that the lesions on the black bear’s mouth and left foreleg fear reinfection and inflammation. They will be transferred to the Wushikeng Low Altitude Test Station of the Council of Agriculture Special Health Center for treatment and containment. Once the injuries have healed, they will be wild in the Daxueshan area. set.
This Taiwanese black bear is number 711. This is not the first time he has been caught in a trap. It was discovered by conservationists in the Daxueshan area in November 2018. The first claw on its left front leg was broken, leaving about 1 cm of claws. Fingers 2, 3, 4 and 5 were all broken and no broken fingers were found. The fifth finger of the right forelimb was broken. Professor “Mother Black Bear” Huang Meixiu from Pingtung University of Science and Technology noted that this is the third time the black bear has caught a trap.
Bear number 711 is 163 cm long and 95 kg in weight and is trapped in a sweet persimmon farm on Dongmao Mountain at an altitude of 1039 meters in Heping District, Taichung City. Around 8 p.m. last night, the fruit grower heard the constant roar of the black bear coming from the orchard. It was judged that he had been trapped at that time. He arrived at the orchard at 4 in the morning and confirmed that it was a Taiwanese black bear.
A fruit grower surnamed Zeng said that last year wild boars ate the sweet persimmons and could not be harvested, so this year some boar curtains were put up. Unexpectedly, today I went up the mountain to the orchard and saw a black object. Black bear, everyone is half dead, so hurry up and call the police.
The Dongshi Forest Management Office and the mother black bear immediately began rescue operations. A total of 5 people were sent to the scene by the veterinary team of the First Aid Station for Wild Animals of the Special Health Center. While awaiting rescue, the black bear was also emotionally restless. He kept roaring and screaming. He opened his mouth several times and tried to bite down on the rope, biting his left palm trapped in pain, causing his palm and mouth to fill with blood and finally he was exhausted. Helpless limping to the ground.
After receiving the report, the Liyang work station of the Forest Management Office and the Forest Police came to the scene to understand the situation. At approximately 2:10 PM, the vet fired 2 injections of anesthesia needles at the black bear, the black bear roared first, then slowly fell to the ground and was confirmed to be unconscious at 2:30.
Seeing it fall to the ground, local staff rushed to untie the ring and inspected the black bear’s wounds. They found that the left foreleg and mouth were injured in an attempt to break free, and the lesions were likely to re-infect and inflame. They decided to transfer him to the Special Health Center. The altitude test station will be treated and released in the Daxueshan area after the injury is healed.
Veterinarian Zhan Fangze, a researcher at the Special Health Center, said the steel cable was sheathed in the wrist joint of the black bear’s left forelimb. Fortunately, the injury is good and does not require amputation.
As for the mouth injury, Zhan Fangze said the main reason is that after tying up the black bear, the nature of the animal will continue to want to bite the lasso. After the black bear is out of trouble, it will be replenished with water and the contaminated part of the wound will also be treated with antibiotics. , I hope it can be restored and released in no time.
The outside world is curious why does the black bear cut its palms? Huang Meixiu said this is not the first time that this Taiwanese black bear has been caught in a lasso trap. Fear and excitement want to get out of the loop, so it reluctantly bites the loop and the palm, and even bites the palms and fingers. This is the black bear’s escape instinct. Caused by.
She said that the black bear instinctively wants to break free, but the steel cable wants to break free and get stronger.
The scene of the incident was about 70 kilometers from downtown Taichung, and the driving time was approximately 1.5 hours. Netizens were concerned that the black bear would not be able to hold it and left distressed messages: “Please hold it”, “It hurts a lot to see the black bear injured”, “The black bear is innocent. Can you let it live?”
The Taiwan Black Bear Conservation Association immediately launched a one-letter campaign on Facebook to inform Executive Yuan Su Zhenchang and President Tsai Ing-wen, banning non-selective traps, in hopes of hitting black bears. from Taiwan the freedom to survive and be free from fear.
Jiang Shufang, secretary of the Taichung City Animal Protection Department, stated that the use of “Mountain Pig Crane” is prohibited by the “Animal Protection Law”, but the animals referred to in the “Animal Protection Law” Animal Protection “are dogs, cats and other vertebrates that are kept or managed, including inexpensive Animals, laboratory animals, pets and other animals Therefore, farmers who use wild boar cranes to capture wild animals such as black bears cannot be sanctioned by the Animal Protection Law.
Hong Xingyou, head of the recreational section of the Dongshi Forest District Management Office, said that the use of wild boar cranes is explicitly prohibited in the “Animal Protection Law”, but not prohibited in the “Animal Conservation Law. Wild animals”.
Pei Jiaqi, a professor at the Ping University of Science and Technology Wildlife Conservation Institute, said it is not the first time that Taiwanese black bears have been close to human life areas. In recent years, there have been records of black bears breaking into the mountain house on many occasions. The black bear broke into the mountain house. Food has become a foraging habit, but the reason the black bears bond in the garden this time must be confirmed by local research.
According to the survey, male number 711 has a wide range of activities, ranging from Wugao Mountain, Bailen Mountain to Dongmao and Hengliu Streams. It is speculated that this time he passed through the Dongmao Mountain orchard and mistakenly caught the snare trap that farmers use to prevent and control wild boars. (Reported by Li Chen Xinde, Chen Shihe / Taichung Report)
Taiwan Black Bear Archives
scientific name: Selenarctos thibetanus formosanus
Commonly known as: bear, white-throated bear
Quantity: about 500
Distribution area: Taiwan is distributed in forest areas with an altitude of 1000 to 3500 meters.
Characteristics: The body color is black, with white V-shaped markings on the chest. It is a subspecies of Asiatic black bear exclusive to Taiwan. It is 130-160 cm long and weighs up to 200 kg.
Source: “Apple News” data room
