The evening of June 14, 2018, began like many others in a small rural community on Muna Island in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. For 54-year-old Wa Tiba, tending to her vegetable garden was a normal part of daily life.
The area where she lived was surrounded by rocky terrain, cliffs, and patches of dense vegetation, landscapes that local residents had shared with wildlife for generations. Nothing about that evening suggested it would become one of the most widely reported wildlife incidents in recent memory.
Wa Tiba left her home to check on her garden, which was located some distance from the village. Family members expected her to return later that evening, as she…
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