A 2-year-old female Amur tiger, Mila, dies at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, officials said in a news release.
On Friday, Mila received an anesthesia injection and jumped up on to a bench. “Less than a minute after lying down, she slipped off of the waist-high bench, causing a fatal spinal injury,” the release said. “Given the short timeframe from her lying down to her slipping off, it was impossible from a human safety standpoint to stop her tragic fall.”
“She could have slid off from that height a hundred times and landed in a variety of other positions and been unaffected,” said Dr. Eric Klaphake, the zoo head veterinarian, in the release. “The team quickly entered her den when it was safe and diligently tried for 40 minutes to give her life-saving care.”due to complications during recovery from an artificial insemination procedure.
Amur tigers are critically endangered in the wild with only around 500 roaming native habitats, the zoo said. Amur tigers in human care, at zoos and aquariums accredited by the
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