Tiger cubs stars of Japanese safari park – video Four tiger cubs born on 3 June are already the stars of Japan’s Fuji safari park, west of Tokyo. The cubs delight visitors, who are able to play with the newborn felines after feeding them formula under the supervision of park caretakers. A newborn black jaguar…
The Peoria Zoo announced the birth of four new tiger cubs born June 24, 2012. The father Vaska and mother Kyra were just recently introduced and obviously are a compatible couple. Vaska is eleven years old and came from the Minnesota Zoo where his brother also sired a litter of two cubs but unfortunately only…
PADERBORN, Germany, Aug. 1 (UPI) — A German zookeeper said a white lion cub rejected by its mother was adopted by her male dog whose name means lion. Jeanette Wurms, 36, a lion keeper at the Stukenbrock safari park near Paderborn, said baby lion Jojo was developing an infection where her umbilical cord was severed after…
Business is good for the “lion encounter” industry. There are now dozens of these operations across Africa that sell close encounters with captive lions. Starting at $60 for “a precious twenty minutes” of cub cuddling, and climbing to more than $3,500 for a month of paid “volunteering,” anyone can pay to play with young lions…
Lion cub STEVE KNIGHT/The Lufkin News Beth Wegner, a big cat keeper at the Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin, shows a male African lion cub, which was born at the zoo on Saturday. The yet-to-be-named cub is the first of his kind born at the zoo since the late 1970s. Previous Next STEVE KNIGHT/The Lufkin News…