Pregnant Sumatran tiger at Tacoma Point Defiance Zoo
Jul 28, 2012, 10:30 AM | Updated: 11:42 am
An endangered Sumatran tiger at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium is expecting a baby.
Zoo officials have confirmed Jaya’s pregnancy but they have been unable to determine how many cubs she is expecting to deliver when she gives birth, sometime in late August.
Only five Sumatran tiger cubs have been born this year in accredited North American zoos and fewer than 380 live in zoos around the world.
This is the second pregnancy for 9-year-old Jaya, who last gave birth to a pair of cubs in May 2010. It is the first litter fathered by Malosi, a 3-year-old tiger visiting from a Honolulu zoo.
