Dreamworld New tiger cubs

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Dreamworld has received two bengal tiger cubs from a private zoo in NSW (Mogo?) They are either 5 weeks or 5 months old. On the eveing news.
 
New Bengal tiger cubs at Dreamworld
Forget fluffy bunnies this Easter. Bengal tiger cubs are all the rage on the Gold Coast this year.

Two four-week-old cubs from a private animal park in NSW, have just gone on display at Dreamworld's Tiger Island.

Weighing just five kilograms, they're already starting to pack the weight on.

Tiger Island manager Patrick Martin-Vegue says the yet-to-be-named cubs will be bottle fed for six months and are already having meat introduced into their diet, but so far, he's avoided being part of the tasting menu.

"They're starting now to learn what the word 'no' means," he told reporters on Wednesday.

"They're figuring out that gee, it's not OK to bite this guy too hard. Even at this stage they're learning what the basic rules are.

"I can still count to 10 on my fingers - my toes are another story," he laughed.

By the time the cubs are a year old, they'll weigh about 90kg and a whopping 200kg when they reach maturity.

Mr Martin-Vegue says the cubs will be kept in quarantine, behind glass, for another two weeks until they've had their first vaccinations, then they'll be introduced to the other big cats.

With 15 tigers now living at Dreamworld, the theme park will soon run a competition to pick names for the two latest additions, he said.

There are close to 30 tigers in Queensland, with the others at Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast and the Cairns Wildlife Safari Reserve.

But their numbers are dwindling in the wild, Mr Martin-Vegue said.

"There's only around 3000 to 4000 tigers left on the planet in the wild.

"Bengal tigers are probably the most numerous (species) and their numbers are only probably 1200 to 1500."

Dreamworld is the largest zoological contributor to tiger conservation in the world.

The money it raises helps fund anti-poaching patrols in Russia and Sumatra, along with conservation efforts in India and Thailand.
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its interesting that all the press releases (admittedly they are all the same press release!) just say "a private animal park [or zoo] in NSW" rather than "Mogo Zoo in NSW". It seems fairly obvious that it has to be Mogo.
 
Chlidonias said:
its interesting that all the press releases (admittedly they are all the same press release!) just say "a private animal park [or zoo] in NSW" rather than "Mogo Zoo in NSW". It seems fairly obvious that it has to be Mogo.
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Let's get our facts straight before we assume where the cubs came from. There is more than 1 private animal park (or zoo) in NSW. I know for a fact that the cubs were not bred at Mogo Zoo.
 
I realise there is more than one private animal park or zoo in NSW but leaving aside the Taronga zoos for obvious reasons (they don't count as private), I thought that left only Mogo that had tigers, and I know they have produced tiger and lion cubs before that went to Dreamworld and other facilities. If there is another park that has tigers in NSW it must have slipped my mind.
 
Private may also mean not open to the public, just guessing but the only other one I could think of would be Bullen's in Western Sydney, I believe Kato was bred by them for Dreamworld and perhaps some of the Australia Zoo cubs as well.
 
Symbio have tigers now too, as of last year.

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Hix
 
Hix said:
Symbio have tigers now too, as of last year.
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not likely to have produced cubs for Dreamworld though. So if it isn't Mogo, does that only leave Bullens?
 
As Bullens are not open to the public they would not want publicity. Any place open to the public would ensure their name is mentioned for the publicity and more visitors it would bring.
 
Hix said:
This is the only reason I mentioned Symbio.
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fair enough, I officially retract my interpretation that you were suggesting they may have produced the cubs. I'm sure I did know Symbio had tigers but I must have forgotten.
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Is this true i contacted dreamworld and they told me only one of their tigers are a hybrid the rest are pure bengal tigers? Fact or Fiction
 
That is fiction. All so-called "bengal" tigers in circusses and circus-like establishments like Dreamworld and Bullens are hybrids (and should be phased out!!).
I have a hard time believing that in the 21st century there are still zoos in the western world that promote handraising of big cats... but, well, Dreamworld is more circus then zoo, and the normal morals of a reputable zoos don`t apply for them.
 
how up to date is Dreamworld's website? They list six Sumatran tigers on there, and six "Bengal tigers" (as to the purity of these, the father of four of the Bengals is a white tiger.....)
 
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