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Cameron Park Zoo Welcomes New Tiger
Waco’s Cameron Park Zoo has added a new tiger to its exhibit during the Year of the Tiger
Reporter: By Paul J. GatelyEmail Address: paul.gately@kwtx.com |
Kucing and Maharani (Cameron Park Zoo photo)
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WACO (March 11, 2010)--Visitors to Waco's Cameron Park Zoo can greet the zoo's newest big cat, Kucing, a Sumatran tiger.
Kucing is a young male that was sent to the Cameron Park Zoo from the Wild Animal Park at the San Diego California Zoo.
Kucing celebrated his first birthday last November.
He was only recently introduced to the zoo's youngest female tiger, Maharani, which will be four years old in May.
The addition brings the zoo's tiger population to four and keepers are hopeful the new paring will produce tiger cubs in the future.
In the meantime, Kucing and Maharani will alternate on exhibit with the zoo's older tigers, Sobat and Kali.
Sumatran tigers are critically endangered with fewer than 400 to 500 remaining in the wild because of destruction of their natural habitat on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra.
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just a matter of time till it mauls a trainer
This is great news! The Cameron Park Zoo is an exceptional zoo and one of the better zoos in all of Texas.
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