It’s rare to escape a tiger attack unscathed. But a hidden camera set up in the Indonesian jungle by WWF has captured a rare Sumatran tiger walking through the jungle and then assaulting the camera after the flash goes off.
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The camera survived the attack and even took an image from inside the tiger’s mouth.
The photo sequence was taken from one of 30 “camera traps” in Sumatra. These are the first camera traps ever set up in the heart of central Sumatra’s biologically rich lowland rain forests.
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