By Victoria Gill
Science and nature reporter, BBC News
Living within the habitat of a dangerous animal is not easy.
But it is particularly challenging when that animal is the critically endangered Amur tiger.
If a tiger wanders into a remote Russian village it poses a threat, but also raises a difficult quandary: how can people protect themselves without resorting to killing a creature that is on very the brink of extinction?
A special Tiger Response Team in Russia has sought to solve that problem.
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According to Dr Goodrich, wounds from from botched poaching attempts are a leading cause of Amur tiger attacks on people.
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