Bengal White Tiger With Her Cub in a Cage of Buenos Aires Zoo
Date: 22-Jul-02
Country: ARGENTINA
Author: EM
Photo: ENRIQUE MARCARIAN
A female Bengal white tiger, named Betty, holds up one of her cubs in a cage of Buenos Aires' Zoo July 18, 2002. The tiger gave birth to three cubs, which weighed about one kilogram at birth on June 10, and could weigh 270 kilos (723 pounds) at the age of 15, have not yet been given names. The Buenos Aires' Zoo is the only in South America where this species of tiger have been born.