1928 - barking deer at Fanling

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1928 - barking deer at Fanling

This somewhat unsettling, though somehow pulchritudinously posed, spring 1928 image, which appears under the heading of Shooting in Hongkong, was published in a 1938 Shanghai journal.

The equally unsettling 1938 accompanying text reads, in part: Of big game animals the only forms to be shot in the Hongkong area are the wild pig and the muntjac or barking deer, both of which occur in the New Territories, though, apparently, not in very great numbers. And, of course, there is always the chance of a shot at the famous Hongkong tiger, or a stray leopard.

Date picture taken
1928
Tags
fauna
Fanling
hunting
barking deer
muntjac
Shows place(s)
Fanling [????- ]

Comments

Wild South China tigers once roamed the hills and rural areas of Hong Kong, with occasional visits and sightings continuing through the 1950s and last authenticated reports around 1965. These apex predators are now extinct in the territory and critically endangered or extinct in the wild globally. 

  • The Sheung Shui Tiger (1915): On March 8, 1915, a wild tiger in the northern New Territories mauled two British police officers (Constables Ernest Goucher and Hollands) who went to investigate reports from villagers. Goucher died from his injuries days later, and the tiger was subsequently hunted down and killed.

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1934167/why-refugees-china-didnt-fancy-living-tigers-cliff-hong-kong

  • The Stanley Tiger (1942): During the Japanese occupation, a tiger was shot near an internment camp on Hong Kong Island in Stanley. 

https://www.police.gov.hk/museum/qrpage/en/inner/20/2.html