Photo: People eager to see newborn white tigers in Saigon Zoo
For the first time, a pair of Canadian-imported white tigers at the Saigon Zoo have given birth to three healthy cubs. They weigh 3.6-4.1 kilograms almost a month after birth.
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| The baby tigers were born on July 9. On August 9, the Saigon Zoo organized a one-month celebration for the baby tigers. Many visitors were lucky to see the baby tigers. |
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| The zoo’s director Phan Viet Lam said two days after giving birth, the mother tiger abandoned a baby tiger because she was lacking milk. This baby tiger is being bottle-fed. The tiger is currently 4.1kg in weight, bigger than the other two. |
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| In 2009, the parent tigers, named Lem and Luoc, were transported from the Elmvale Jungle Zoo in Ontario, Canada to Ho Chi Minh City. They belong to the magnificent Bengal Tiger breed, or Panthera tigris, which is indigenous to India and Bangladesh, and rarely seen in the wilderness. |
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| The variety, the second largest of all living tiger sub-species, is the only one of the six existing tiger sub-species that occurs in different color variations in the wild, according to cougarmountainzoo.org. |
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| The world is currently home to only around 2,300 white tigers, most of which are raised in captivity in zoos. |