Jamshedpur, Apr 21 (PTI) Twelve-year-old Shanti, a tigress in the Tata Steel Zoological Society (TSZS) here, has given birth to a cub. Shanti gave birth on Thursday last, a press release said today. Both the mother and cub have been kept in isolation while the Zoo Veterinary staff and keepers taking care of the…
Marwan Alhammadi’s 15-minute film “Cats” begins with an Emirati taking out a cage with a lion cub from his car at his sprawling villa. The owner explains that his family was initially shocked but later accepted their pet. “I consider him my son,” the man adds in the film screened at the Fifth Gulf Film…
Louis Theroux returns to our screens this evening with a series about the autistic young and demented old. Here’s a reminder of his stranger encounters… When Sir Jimmy Savile died, the first thing that came to mind was not Top of the Pops or Jim’ll Fix It – no, it was Louis Theroux’s disconcerting documentary, When Louis…
A LION cub that almost died of starvation turns three — and will soon be joined by some female big cats so he can become a father. Themba the African White Lion is hardly recognisable from the cute little furball that needed to be cradled in people’s arms to keep him alive. Now the proud…
A rare tiger cub made his public debut today at Point Defiance Zoo. The three-week old Sumatran tiger weighs just 8 pounds. He had to be taken away from his mom, because she wasn’t producing enough milk, and the cub was losing weight. Zookeepers started bottle feeding the little guy, and now…