Changsha News On January 20, in the Changsha Ecological Zoo, a precious South China tiger cub made its debut 60 days after birth. This is the third baby tiger boy born to the tiger mother "Xiaohua" of the South China Tiger in changsha ecological zoo and the son-in-law of The tiger father "Ma San" in Luoyang. As an important place for animal protection and breeding of rare and endangered species, Changsha Ecological Zoo has bred 8 South China tigers in the past 10 years.
The South China tiger is a subspecies of tiger endemic to China, distributed only in China, living in south-central China, also known as the "Chinese tiger", which is extinct in the wild and ranked first among the top ten endangered species in the world.
The tiger mother "Xiaohua" of the South China Tiger at the Changsha Ecological Zoo and the son-in-law of the Luoyang door-to-door tiger father "Ma San" gave birth to three tiger cubs in March 2019, and the second child gave birth to male quadruplets in May 2020. On November 22, 2021, the 8-year-old tiger father and the 7-and-a-half-year-old tiger mother responded to the call of the state to give birth to a precious South China tiger cub.
According to the relevant person in charge of changsha ecological zoo, this little tiger cub was initially fed by the tiger mother herself, and on the fifth day, the keepers found that the tiger mother had "abandoned the baby", regardless of her own tiger cubs. To ensure that the cub survives healthily, the keepers take the cub out for artificial cubing. The park concentrates its technical strength, and there are professional and technical personnel left behind in the nursery center 24 hours a day to carry out artificial feeding, feeding and feeding water, defecation and urination, and comprehensively caring for the cubs. After feeding calcium, minerals, and vitamins seven times a day, the minced meat will begin to be added after 50 days.
So far, Changsha Ecological Zoo has 9 adult South China tigers, 1 juvenile South China tiger, 1 borrowed, and the number of South China tigers in the park has reached 11.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Li Tang
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