Night Safari Welcomes 2 Endangered Malayan Tiger Cubs with first successful Birth in 22 Years
Earlier as the Wildlife Reserves Singapore has revealed about the birth of Sima where now on 25 February a pair of tiger cubs were also born last year when The Night Safari welcomed a pair of Malayan tiger cubs on Dec. 27, 2020, WRS said in a press release on Feb. 25, 2021.
This is also the first successful birth of this critically endangered feline at WRS since 1998 and the parents of the twins are Intan and Bongsu where the Intan, now about seven-year-old, and Bongsu, now about nine-year-old, came from Zoo Negara in 2015, WR. The both cubs are male where one of them are around one month old now.
Currently, their mother Intan is taking care of the twin cubs which is close monitored by the animal care team via closed-circuit cameras and the cubs have not yet been given names yet and with their estimated population of 150 in the wild where the birth of the twin cubs is a significant addition to the population of the endangered sub-species.
400 babies across 107 species were born or hatched in the wildlife parks managed by Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) last year.
