Kolmården Zoo Tiger cubs born at Kolmården two months ago

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Two female cubs were born two months ago.

I can´t help but once again make some PR for the ten webcameras from the tiger exhibit in this zoo:

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I literally followed the latest litter growing up (on a day to day basis) via these webcams and fear that I will spend another few hundred hours for the next nine or ten months doing the same thing as far as this new litter is concerned.

Here is a little snapshot from one of the cameras, taken a few minutes ago: the mother sleeping with the cubs.
 

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Hi Dan,

So I wasn't the only one who spent hours looking at the last litter of cubs!!! :D

I used to look at the cubs all day and have got some wonderful screen grabs of them and the other tigers. I found the whole process extremely interesting - it was a real insight into how the cubs are sensitised to different things and then how they are introduced to the other tigers. It was very sad last time for there to be the loss of one of the cubs, Amurs.

I'll watch again now with interest. I didn't realise one of the other females was pregnant so haven't watched for some time. And you're right, it's a great set of webcams. The one they had at the monkey house some time ago was also very good.

Sarah
 
That´s nice to hear, Sarah! Let´s hope everything goes well with the new litter.
 
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Hi, I agree the tiger web cams are great and I have been watching them now for a couple of months, with so many cameras there is always at least one or two tigers in sight, it is very interesting to see so many tigers in one enclosure (most zoos only have a couple of tigers) and the way in which they interact with each other. Does anybody know the relationships between the tigers? and exactly how many there are I thought there were six until I am sure I counted eight a few days ago?
 
I actually don´t watch these cameras as intensely as I did for a long period a couple of years ago, but if you counted eight then yes, that sounds reasonable. Two of them will be the latest litter, now one year old. I don´t know about the other six. I seem to recall that there were five or six grown ups when I watched the litter before this one growing up. Perhaps those youngsters have now been sent to other zoos (or put to sleep for that matter, if new homes couldn´t be found).

But it is interesting that a "pack" of tigers can be held this way and that they apparently function just as a pack! I assume that there can only be one grown up male in the group.

I will e-mail the zoo about your questions and get back if I recieve an answer.
 
Hi jb-lancashire, I wrote to the zoo but heard nothing from them. Than I sent a reminder and speedily got an answer. This is my attempt at translation into English:

“Yes we have eight tigers.

We have two males (brothers) born 2001 who came to Kolmården from a Dutch zoo in 2002. We have a grown up female born 2002 who came to Kolmården in 2002 from a French zoo. The other five are born in Kolmården and consis of one male born 2006, one male and a female born 2007 and two females born 2008. Our female from France is mother to the ones born in 2006 and 2008. Her sister, who unfortunately died from x* are mother to the ones born in 2007.

The male born in 2007 is still here but his two sisters were sent to Orsa Bear Park.”

I am afraid that I don not know the English word for this illness, but it has to do with some kind of “infection (?) of the surface of the brain”. Something like that.
 
Dan said:
Hi jb-lancashire, I wrote to the zoo but heard nothing from them. Than I sent a reminder and speedily got an answer. This is my attempt at translation into English:

“Yes we have eight tigers.

We have two males (brothers) born 2001 who came to Kolmården from a Dutch zoo in 2002. We have a grown up female born 2002 who came to Kolmården in 2002 from a French zoo. The other five are born in Kolmården and consis of one male born 2006, one male and a female born 2007 and two females born 2008. Our female from France is mother to the ones born in 2006 and 2008. Her sister, who unfortunately died from x* are mother to the ones born in 2007.

The male born in 2007 is still here but his two sisters were sent to Orsa Bear Park.”

I am afraid that I don not know the English word for this illness, but it has to do with some kind of “infection (?) of the surface of the brain”. Something like that.
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Hi Dan,
Thanks for going to the trouble of emailing the zoo, translating the reply and posing it here. With this new information watching the tigers will be even more interesting. Thanks once again.
:)
 
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