Mohali, April 04: In a rare case of cross-breeding, a yellow tigress gave birth to a cub fathered by a white Royal Bengal Tiger at Chhatbir Zoological Park in Mohali district, officials said.
However, the gender of the cub, born on Saturday, was not yet known as the seven-year-old tigress has not yet fully removed the placenta from her baby’s body, which visibly lacks white genes.
The park officials are quite optimistic about its survival.
“The tigress Chorni has began feeding her baby. Last year she had a miscarriage. At present, nobody except a zookeeper is being allowed to enter the enclosure to avoid any kind of irritation to the mother. Even the four-year-old tiger Lucky is kept out of the den,” the zoo field director Tushar Kanti Behra said.
–Agencies