BARANG: The Nandankanan zoo officials
celebrated first birthday of three tiger cubs Ankita, Asha and Subhashree with the
presence of more than hundred of visitors in the zoo here on Sunday. The school
children, standing outside of the enclosure 32 A, enjoyed the show by cheering
up the cubs.
The enclosure gate was decorated
with colourful flowers and balloons. With the presence of zoo officials,
visitors and school children the birthday cake cutting ceremony took place. The
zoo keepers released the cubs to the enclosure for public viewing. The visitors
enjoyed the innocence of the cubs running in the enclosure freely.
Attending as the chief guest of
the celebration, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF-Wildlife) JD
Sharma said they would again mate the tigress Sarah with another tiger after
two years to get healthy cubs.
In 2009, the zoo authority had
brought Sarah, mother of the cubs, from Bhopal
zoo as an exchange. Sarah was caught from a Madhya Pradesh jungle in 2006.
After getting the wild tigress, Nandankanan zoo officials started mating her
with white tiger Rishi. In January 13,
2012, Sarah gave birth to the cubs.
The cubs were staying under the
surveillance of four CCTV camera installed by the zoo authorities after the
death of five cubs. The authorities had captured all the movements of pregnant
tigress and her cubs for one year. For the first time, a tigress give birth her
cubs under the surveillance of CCTV in India.
The zoo director Sudarshan Panda,
deputy director Chittaranjan Mishra, assistant director Kamal Lochan Purohit
and sanctuary range officer Anjan Kumar Mohanty attended the ceremony.
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