Indonesian conservation officers performed a necropsy, or animal autopsy, on a Sumatran tigress found dead in a trap in the province of Riau.

The animal was discovered dead on September 26, and brought to the Riau Center for Natural Resource Conservation (BKSDA) for investigation.

Four doctors collectively performed the necropsy in Muara Lembu, Riau province the following night on September 27, and discovered several key facts.

The tigress was heavily pregnant with two cubs, an eight ounce male, and a 6.5 ounce female, estimated to be delivered two weeks later.

The tigress herself was estimated to be four or five years old, and died from a ruptured kidney, likely gained struggling in the snare, which had wrapped lethally around her hindquarters.

With only around 400 Sumatran tigers left in the world the species is categorised as critically endangered, making this loss especially devastating.

Poaching for body parts, for their uses in traditional medicines or as artefacts, has severely impacted Sumatran tiger populations.

Consequently this female's body was buried in a secret location, then covered with cement to prevent scavenging for parts.

Officers from the Riau Center for Natural Resource Conservation (BKSDA) neotroped against Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) female found dead due to entrapment in the Indonesian province of Riau.

after neotropsy of tiger carcasses, which involved four doctors, found several facts, the first fact that the tiger was pregnant with a pair of children, with an 8 ounce male weight, and 6.5 ounces female. the fact that these two tigers are predicted to give birth in the next two weeks, the third fact is that the animal dubbed the king of the forest is around 4, 5 years old. The next fact is that the tiger died from a kidney rupture due to entrapment.

For this incident, Indonesia lost three tiger animals that are very protected in Indonesia and even the world.