Baby animal alert: Tiger cub born at Tacoma zoo
Aug 23, 2012, 11:14 AM | Updated: 2:29 pm
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The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium has some exciting news. A Sumatran tiger, Jaya, gave birth to a cub Wednesday night.
“We’re ecstatic about this birth,” Goodrowe Beck said. “It represents another milestone in the work to preserve this critically endangered species.”
The cub, whose sex is not yet known, is doing well and appears to be strong and nursing, according to the zoo.
The birth means 74 Sumatran tigers are now living zoos in North America and 200 in zoos around the world. Point Defiance says there are only about 300 Sumatran tigers left in the wild.
The public will be allowed to see Jaya and her bundle of joy in about two months.
