What’s thought to be the world’s first liliger, a hybrid of a lion and a liger, has been born at a zoo in Russia’s Siberia. Little Kiara’s dad is a lion and her mother is a liger. Sunday, September 16, 2012 » 02:19pm What do you get when you keep lions and tigers in…
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — The Birmingham Zoo is getting ready to say goodbye to its year-old lion cub litter. Zoo officials announced this week that the five cubs — Lily, Asha, Kimba, Vulcan and Baron — will be leaving the zoo for two destinations. The males — Baron and Vulcan — will head to the…
TACOMA – The head veterinarian at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium says staffers will bottle-feed a newborn Sumatran tiger cub because of concerns that he’s losing weight and not getting enough milk. Staff members say the cub’s mother, Jaya, is less attentive to this cub than she was to a litter she had two…
Third Tiger Cub at Patna Zoo also Dead Patna, Sep 4 (IANS): All three tiger cubs born at the Patna Zoological Park July 31 have died within a week, succumbing to infection, a zoo official said Tuesday. The last of the three cubs died late Monday and the death came as a huge…
PeTA group calls for USDA to shut down GW Exotic Animal Park An animal rights group is calling for a local animal park to be shut down after two chimpanzees got out of their cage last Friday. An eye witness called the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) after they saw…