Outdoor surgery saves life of injured Siberian tiger

An injured wild Siberian tiger was saved after four hours of surgery performed outdoors at a forest farm in Yichun, Heilongjiang province.

Cui Yan, an expert from the Heilongjiang Endangered Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, said it was the first time Chinese wildlife experts had performed such an operation on a Siberian tiger in the wild.

"Thanks to the swift action, the tiger was saved. Otherwise, it may have died within a couple of days," he said.