An unmarked wooden box only 16 inches tall sat at the Beirut Airport in Lebanon for a week before being opened – and people were shocked to find out three endangered Siberian tiger cubs inside. Dehydrated and starved, they were covered in urine and feces, their bodies infested with hundreds of maggots. “Nothing indicated that the box contained tigers or even live animals, and there were no details of a shipper or receiver,” rescue group Animals Lebanon (AL) wrote.
Turned out, the cubs were travelling from the the Nikolaev Zoo in Ukraine to the Samer al-Husainawi Zoo in Damascus, Syria when they got stuck in Lebanon.
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This horrible scene people witnessed when they opened the box revealed just how badly exotic animals are sometimes being treated. AL made a plea to confiscate the tigers from their original owner arguing this was a case of cruelty against animals. Now the cubs are safe and sound and getting stronger every day.
“Big cats can be worth tens of thousands of dollars on the black market. The owner is fighting to get them back,” AL wrote. “And we are fighting for the tigers.”
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An unmarked wooden box was left at the Beirut Airport in Lebanon for a week before being opened…
Image credits: Animals Lebanon
And people were shocked to find out three endangered Siberian tiger cubs inside
Image credits: Animals Lebanon
Dehydrated and starved, they were covered in urine and feces, their bodies infested with hundreds of maggots
Image credits: Animals Lebanon
“Nothing indicated that the box contained tigers or even live animals, and there were no details of a shipper”
Image credits: Hussein Malla
Now the cubs are safe and sound and getting stronger every day at Animals Lebanon
“Big cats can be worth tens of thousands of dollars on the black market”
Image credits: Hussein Malla
“The owner is fighting to get them back… And we are fighting for the tigers”
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