A Sumatran tigress and her cubs took a special interest in a World Wildlife Federation camera, sniffing and possibly licking it during a brief sequence released in late December.
The video was released as a prelude to the WWF’s Tx2: Double or Nothing campaign to call attention to plight of the tiger species. There are as few as 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, and they remain vulnerable to poachers and the destruction of their habitat on the Indonesian island.
WWF’s field crew has been using the “wildlife-activated” cameras for five years, but this is the first time that a mother and her cubs have been recorded.
