All Posts Tagged With: "White Tiger"
Heat convectors keep tigers warm at Ludhiana Zoo
From ANI
Ludhiana, Jan 13: Tigers at the Tiger Safari Zoo in Ludhiana have been provided with blowers to keep them safe from the biting cold.
The measure was taken due to a tiger falling sick after being exposed to the chill.
Plastic sheets and straw mats have also been used to cover the cages to keep the [...]
White tiger savages zookeeper
A German zookeeper was taken to hospital in a serious condition after she was mauled by a white tiger while cleaning out its cage.
Police say the male tiger – named Karim – attacked the 30-year-old while her back was turned, after slipping through a gate she had apparently left unlocked.
Colleagues at the zoo in the [...]
2 lions kill white tiger in Czech zoo
By KAREL JANICEK (AP)
PRAGUE — A rare white tiger was killed by two lions that managed to sneak into its enclosure in a Czech zoo, officials said Thursday.
The lions, 14-year-old Sultan and 11-year-old Elsa, entered the open-air area occupied by the 17-year-old tiger Isabella by opening a trap door, Liberec Zoo spokesman Ivan Langr said.
He [...]
Tigress in Lucknow zoo gives birth to four cub
Press Trust of India
Lucknow Nov 9 (PTI) At the time when the tiger population is dwindling in the country, a Royal Bengal tigress has given birth to four cubs at a zoological park here.
Ipshita, who was brought to the park in 2007 from Nandan Kanan in Bhubaneswar, gave birth to the four cubs last night, [...]
Orissa zoo gears up for birth of chimpanzee
Bhubaneswar, (IANS) The officials at Orissa’s Nandankanan zoo Monday said they have ensured a healthy environment for the chimpanzee who is expected to give birth to her baby early next month.
“We are providing special diets to the pregnant chimp. Our zoo doctors are monitoring her health from time to time,” senior zoo official S. Mohapatra [...]
Rare Sumatran tiger bound for Belfast
A rare Sumatran tiger is bound for Belfast Zoo this week. As part of a European breeding programme between zoos, 19 month-old Kabus will arrive from Chessington Zoo, England and will be the first tiger to live in Belfast Zoo since the death of white tiger Jack in April 2009 and Jill in 2007. Kabus [...]
7Oct2009 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedFree zoos still need public to pay for costs
By EDWARD VAN EMBDEN – Press of Atlantic City
BRIDGETON – Kelly Shaw stopped by Holly’s cage and called out to the Himalayan black bear.
From the hammock in the middle of her artificial habitat, the bear craned her neck around to see who was calling. Finally, she rolled out of it and sauntered toward the edge [...]
White tiger attacks inebriated zoo visitor
The Hindu
HYDERABAD: An inebriated visitor to the Nehru Zoological Park who tried to feed a white tiger grass, ended up at Osmania General Hospital with a severely mauled arm on Wednesday evening.
With the Dutch courage waning, the ‘daredevil’ zoo visitor, Ramesh (35), was seen writhing in pain at the hospital. The angry tiger had a [...]
Tiger mauls NZ zoo keeper to death
Anne Barrowclough in Sydney – Times Online
A zoo-keeper has been mauled to death by a white tiger in a New Zealand safari park, as horrified tourists looked on.
The keeper suffered serious “tearing” injuries to his abdomen and lower leg after being attacked at around 11 am local time today when he and another keeper [...]
Tiger Jack dies
Belfast Zoo’s much loved white tiger, Jack, has died. He was 17 years old.
Jack came to Belfast on 23 April 1998 from Colchester Zoo, and arrived with Jill, the zoo’s other tiger. They shared an enclosure for 9 years until Jill died of kidney failure in 2007.
Over the past few weeks Jack’s health had [...]



