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Tiger Tiger
FEROCIOUS felines Tschuna and Daseep have helped make history at Dudley Zoo.
The two female tigers arrived in the Black Country, having been transferred all the way from Wuppertal Zoo, in Germany.
Fifteen-month-old Amur tiger Tschuna and 14-month-old Daseep, a Sumatran, were transported into the big cat enclosure by crane in a manoeuvre that involved more than a dozen senior keeping staff.
They were the first double entry into the enclosure in the zoo’s 75-year history and took almost a year of negotiations between keepers across Europe.
Zoo chief executive Peter Suddock said: “We are over the moon with the new girls, they are beautiful. It is wonderful to see them, and hopefully within the next year we will have a male to carry on our breeding programme.”
Tiger Tiger
FEROCIOUS felines Tschuna and Daseep have helped make history at Dudley Zoo.
The two female tigers arrived in the Black Country, having been transferred all the way from Wuppertal Zoo, in Germany.
Fifteen-month-old Amur tiger Tschuna and 14-month-old Daseep, a Sumatran, were transported into the big cat enclosure by crane in a manoeuvre that involved more than a dozen senior keeping staff.
They were the first double entry into the enclosure in the zoo’s 75-year history and took almost a year of negotiations between keepers across Europe.
Zoo chief executive Peter Suddock said: “We are over the moon with the new girls, they are beautiful. It is wonderful to see them, and hopefully within the next year we will have a male to carry on our breeding programme.”