Tigress ‘Sneha’ gave birth to two cubs at the Nandankanan Zoological Park near here on Thursday. With this, the tiger population at the zoo increased to 27.
The white tigress delivered one cub at 3.38 am and the other at 5.44 am. Sex and colour of the cubs were yet to be established. The mating of the tigress with a normal colour tiger, ‘Saif’, had taken place 105 days ago, said zoo sources. ‘Saif’ was brought from the Hyderabad zoo under an animal exchange programme for bloodline change.
Nandankanan now houses 13 normal colour tigers (five male and eight female), eight white tigers (three male and five female), four Melanistic tigers (all male) and two cubs.