Video of lone Malayan tiger casually strolling on the road did not take place in Mersing, Johor

Still a wild and beautiful sight.

Fasiha Nazren | Zhangxin Zheng | November 02, 2018, 03:15 PM

You might have seen this video circulated online or via WhatsApp.

The video allegedly showed a lone tiger sauntering along Mersing at Johor State, which was of much concern to Singaporeans who frequent Johor Bahru (JB).

Here's the video, if you have not seen it.

Here's the Facebook caption.

And here are people terrified of Johor all of a sudden.

But that's not entirely true.

Tiger spotted in Pahang, not Mersing

According to a Malaysian online news site, Kosmo! Online, the video footage was taken at Bukit Dedari, Kuala Tahan in Pahang, Malaysia at 3.45pm on Sept. 28.

The video takers were on their way to Kampong Pagi and stopped to observe the majestic but lonely tiger strolling on the road.

They continued their journey after the tiger disappeared into the bushes by the side.

Despite being in the middle of Kuala Tahan National Park, it was still an extremely precious sighting of this critically-endangered tiger.

Critically-endangered Malayan tigers

According to WWF, there are only 250 to 340 Malayan tigers left in the world.

This species of tigers can only be found in the Malay Peninsula and on the southern tip of Thailand.

According to the director of the Kuala Tahan Wildlife and National Park (Perhilitan) Pahang, the tiger comes from the Panthera Tigris species, that is extremely rare to find. They would monitor the area to look out for poachers as well as in the interest of human safety.

Stay safe, both humans and tigers.

If you cannot see the video in the post above, you can watch it here:

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Man 1: Tiger, tiger.

Man 2: Tiger, I found a walking tiger.

Man 1: (He's walking) so slowly.

Man 3: Let him go up first.

Man 1: Yes let him go up first.

Man 2: Ok, ok.

Man 1: Do you see that?

Man 2: Where is it?

Man 1: There, staring right back at us. We don't have anything with us. Reverse, reverse.

Man 1: Ok go forward, go forward faster.

Man 2: Wow, he didn't see us.

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