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Two tiger cubs, which were born in Delhi Zoo to ‘mixed’ pair after 27 years on August 15 has died within ten days, the Zoo officials have said.
The cubs were born to three-year-old white tigress Nirbhaya and five-year-old Royal Bengal tiger Karan.
The first cub, a female died on August 18 while the second one, the male cub died on August 26.
The zoo had installed CCTV cameras to monitor the cubs and the mother and officials discovered something was wrong with one of the cubs.
According to doctors, the male cub died of gastroenteritis while the female one had developed liver cirrhosis.
The Delhi Zoo currently has 12 tigers — seven white and five Royal Bengal tigers, last saw offspring from such a “mixed” pair way back in 1991 when two cubs were born — one white and the other yellow.