An extremely rare Amur tiger died after suffering a 'freak accident' when she received a dose of anesthesia and suffered a fatal spinal injury when she fell off a bench.
An extremely rare Amur tiger -- one of only about 500 left on the planet -- died after suffering what zoo officials called a"freak accident" when she received a dose of anesthesia and suffered a fatal spinal injury when she fell off a bench at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on Aug. 25, 2023.
"It was impossible from a human safety standpoint to stop her tragic fall," the zoo said in their statement. Arriving at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo just five months ago in March, Mila was "showing signs she was ready for her own space" after coming to the facility on a future breeding recommendation. The team at the zoo had been working with the young tiger on "several important husbandry behaviors that would allow her to live a life with lots of choice, autonomy and care at the Zoo," officials said.
"You can plan and plan and things still go wrong," Chastain continued. "Our team delivered exactly the right amount of drugs to a very calm tiger who had trained for this moment. We have successfully anesthetized countless tigers in this same den, and have never experienced an accident like this. We never take decisions to anesthetize an animal for a procedure lightly, and this is a tragic example of why.
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