Three baby tigers of Siberia neglected by their mother, who quickly stopped breastfeeding them, had to be euthanized by the German zoo of Leipzig, he explained on Saturday. After giving birth on Wednesday evening, the Yushka tigress, of which it was the first range, first “took care of its offspring in an exemplary way”, explains the establishment of eastern Germany.
But since Thursday afternoon, she “turned away from her little ones”, ceasing to feed them. The decision to euthanize was taken after two days during which the tigreaux “became lower and lower”. The zoo had to assume a “heavy responsibility” by sparing young people an “inanitual death”, explained the veterinarian Andreas Bernhard.
The interruption of “without apparent” breeding “is a part of the behavioral repertoire for inexperienced young mothers in the animal kingdom”, explains the director of the zoo, Jörg Junhold. The biggest felines in the world, the Tigers of Siberia, or Tigers of Love, live mainly in the Russian Far East where they are threatened with extinction.
At the end of July, another German zoological park, that of Nuremberg, had shot twelve of its baboons, on the grounds that their enclosure was overcrowded. Activists of the animal cause had entered the zoo to protest this decision, accusing it of poor management of this population.
