The Budapest Zoo’s eight-week-old tiger cubs were presented to the public on Thursday morning during a press event. The two animals were born on April 13, but since they and their mother needed complete rest during the first few weeks, only the staff of the City Park institution had been able to see them until now, based on the announcement.
Zookeepers separated the animals from their mother for a few minutes during the event and held both tiger cubs in their arms for a short time. Veterinarians conducted a quick examination to assess their condition and health.
During this process, they were able to determine the cubs’ sex with certainty, although the keepers had already suspected that one was female and one was male,”
they added.
They emphasized that both cubs received the combined vaccinations necessary at this age, as well as deworming medication and identification chips. In addition, their weight was measured: the female cub weighed 8.4 kilograms and the male weighed 9.2 kilograms. After a few minutes of examination, they were released into the outdoor enclosure, where visitors could see the cubs.
Photo: MTI/Kovács Attila
The zoo is asking the public to help name the animals: over the next few days, names can be suggested on the City Park institution’s social media pages, from which the best will be selected and put to a vote. The names receiving the most votes will be given to the tigers and will also be entered into the international tiger registry, according to the announcement.
Photo: MTI/Kovács Attila
Agnes, the four-year-old mother, came from a zoo in the Czech Republic, while Dáriusz, the eight-year-old father, was born at the Debrecen Zoo. These are their first cubs.
All of the tigers at the Budapest Zoo belong to the subspecies known as Siberian or Amur tigers. A total of 277 individuals of this subspecies are kept in 121 European zoos.
Fact
Tigers have been on display at the Hungarian capital’s zoo since 1868, with the first Siberian tigers arriving in 1937. The first successful breeding of tigers in Budapest took place in 1880, and since then, cubs have been born on several occasions. According to the announcement, the last cubs were born at the Zoo in 2013, before the arrival of the current ones.
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