Retarded Cats are Cool!! Right?!! You want to breed more don't you? Especially in other nations with questionable abilities?
Posted on 02/08/2007 4:40:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Three rare white tiger cubs delighted visitors at the Buenos Aires zoo on Thursday, tumbling in the grass of their enclosure in their first public appearance since being born late last year.
Zookeepers said the birth of the blue-eyed Bengal tiger triplets represented an important contribution to saving the animals from extinction.
"There are only about 250, not even 300, animals of this variety in captivity, so every birth in the Buenos Aires zoo contributes to saving this type of Bengal tiger," chief veterinarian Miguel Rivolta told Reuters Television.
Rivolta said the zoo's breeding record showed the tigers had exactly the right environment and diet, which includes 10 kg (22 pounds) of mutton twice a week as well as fresh poultry meat.
White tiger mother Bety gave birth to the cubs, two females and one male, on December 23 but Thursday was the first time zoo visitors were able to see them.
White tigers are a genetic variation of the better-known orange Bengal tigers.
Between 5,000-7,000 tigers live in the wild, down from 100,000 at the start of the 20th-century. Poaching, deforestation and over-hunting of their natural prey have hit their numbers.
"There's a big party every time there's a birthday at the zoo," Rivolta said. "It's a step forward for the conservation project."
Retarded Cats are Cool!! Right?!! You want to breed more don't you? Especially in other nations with questionable abilities?
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Two bullshit links.
I guess you have no true experience. You should have said so.
On the next thread about cows post a few links from PETA. Or on a thread about dinosaurs post links from the idiots at the Flat Earth Society.
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