Male and female were born July 12
Two critically endangered Sumatran tiger cubs born this summer came out from their den Thursday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, the zoo announced. The cubs — a female named Puteri, which means “princess” in Malay, and a male named Hutan, which means “forest” — were born July 12. They are the offspring of first-time mother Diana and father Dumai and are the first cubs of their species to be born at the Safari Park’s Tull Family Tiger Trail habitat in seven years.
Managed by conservationists nationwide, each SSP program “aims to ensure genetic diversity and healthy, self- sustaining populations of threatened and endangered wildlife,” a statement from the alliance read. Listed as Critically Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, only an estimated 400 to 600 Sumatran tigers remain on Earth.
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