LITTER OF CUBS
WELLINGTON ZOO TIGER (P.A.I WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. Yvonne, a Royal Malayan tiger at the Wellington zoo, gave birth to a litter of four cubs yesterday.
Yvonne was presented to the zoo by Captain R. N. Matthews, India, on behalf of Viscount Galway, and is now eight years old. She had her first litter of five' cubs about three years ago. One of the cubs was sent to the Melbourne Zoo. but the others are still in Wellington.
Of the latest litter two are males and two females. The largest is about lfi inches long and the smallest 14 inches. They weigh between 3lb and 41b.
Incidentally, tigers, unlike lions and cats, are born with their eyes < pen.
The father of the cubs, Prince, vow fours old. is the biggest tiger in New Zealand, and, said the curator, Mr. C. J. Cutler, probably the biggest in l>Southern Hemisphere. He was bred at the Wellington Zoo.
The new cubs are not to be bottle fed. as their brothers and sisters vvere. They will have to lake their chance of survival under the care of their mother.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21946, 14 February 1946, Page 10
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