In 1914, after a tiger left paw prints within 10 yards of Chief Justice Sir William Rees-Davies house, in the upscale Peak neighborhood, a local newspaper wrote: “He had always been incredulous of tiger visit stories – but this morning here was nothing left to doubt.”Ī story about a tiger sighting appears on the front page of the Hong Kong Telegraph in 1929.
And the 1937 big cat who ate a woman whole, leaving just her blood stains on the mountainside. The tiger in 1916 whose roar terrified commuters on the Peak Tram. There was the 1911 tiger which swam out to Hong Kong’s outlying island of Lamma and feasted on cattle.
Saeki has found hundreds of mentions of tiger sightings and big cat encounters in local newspapers, from the 1920s to as recently as the 1960s – although some might have been sightings of the same tiger, while others were not verified to be more than a rumor. In the early 1900s, zoologists – and the public – were skeptical that wild tigers existed in Hong Kong, despite repeated incidents. “That story makes you wonder how many tigers were being carried around by locals that we never heard about,” says John Saeki, a journalist who is researching a book about tigers in Hong Kong. “That story makes you wonder how many tigers were being carried around by locals that we never heard about” John Saeki,journalist
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