--- description: The drama played out at the Primorsky Safari Park, in Russia's far southeastern corner title: Goat Becomes Pals With Tiger Who Was Supposed to Eat It image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4774d4ca2875cdcc/698872dacf40a8d7f5c40d5b/goat-tiger.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [animals](/tag/animals/) ## animals Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Goat Becomes Pals With Tiger Who Was Supposed to Eat It by [Alexey Eremenko / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alexey Eremenko / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 26, 2015 3:49 PM CUT  Amur the tiger and Timur the goat at Russia's Primorsky Safari Park. Amur the tiger and Timur the goat at Russia's Primorsky Safari Park.Anton Fedoseyev—Primorsky Safari Park/NBC by [Alexey Eremenko / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alexey Eremenko / NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 26, 2015 3:49 PM CUT MOSCOW — Timur the goat was meant to be nothing more than a tasty meal for Amur, a Siberian tiger living in a safari park. Timur had other ideas. The stubborn animal was sent into the tiger’s enclosure earlier this week as one of the predator’s twice-weekly meals of live animals, the park said Thursday. However, no one had taught Timur to be afraid of tigers. And instead of dutifully fulfilling its role in the food chain, Timur chased Amur out of the big cat’s own sleeping place. [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/goat-becomes-pals-tiger-who-was-supposed-eat-it-n469951?cid=par-time%5F20151126 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4127891/goat-tiger-pals/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4127891/goat-tiger-pals/"},"headline":"Goat Becomes Pals With Tiger Who Was Supposed to Eat It","datePublished":"2015-11-26T15:49:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:55:29.591Z","description":"The drama played out at the Primorsky Safari Park, in Russia's far southeastern corner","url":"https://time.com/4127891/goat-tiger-pals/","keywords":["animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4774d4ca2875cdcc/698872dacf40a8d7f5c40d5b/goat-tiger.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexey Eremenko / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4774d4ca2875cdcc/698872dacf40a8d7f5c40d5b/goat-tiger.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"goat-tiger","caption":"Amur the tiger and Timur the goat at Russia's Primorsky Safari Park.","creditText":"Anton Fedoseyev—Primorsky Safari Park/NBC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/animals/","name":"animals"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4127891/goat-tiger-pals/","name":"Goat Becomes Pals With Tiger Who Was Supposed to Eat It"}}]}] ```