AR-News: (AU) Siberian tiger has sextuplets

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

>From correspondents in Beijing
02mar04

A SIBERIAN tiger has given birth to sextuplets at a zoo in east China's 
Zhejiang province, boosting the endangered species' population, which had been 
estimated at less than 400 in the wild, local zoo officials said today.

The tiger at Hangzhou Wild Animals' Park delivered her first cub at about 
7:40am local time yesterday and the delivery lasted for about four hours, the 
Xinhua news agency said. 
That cub and all the other baby tigers survived, Xinhua quoted the zoo 
officials saying. 
"We just couldn't believe it!" a zoo keeper said. "Giving birth to six is 
extremely rare." 





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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8844129%255E1702,00.
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