White tigress ‘Raksha’ gives birth to 3 cubs, zoo official releases first picture

People were captivated by the first glimpses of three white cubs and were in awe of their lovely movements and antics. At the Maitro Bagh Zoo in Bhilai, the white tigress Raksha gave birth to them about 1.5 months ago.

The first images of the cubs have already been made public by the zoo administration. All three were observed moving about and engaging with one another in a room. According to officials, Raksha, a white tigress at the Maitri Bagh Zoo in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, gave birth to three kids.

“The cubs are 1.5 months old now. The tigress is Raksha and the tiger is Sultan. The pair of tigers were brought from Nandankanan Zoological Park in 1997, they had several cubs. We shifted around 12 of them to different zoos across the country,” Maitri Bagh Zoo in-charge NK Jain said while talking to the sources.

A two-month-old white tiger named “Singham” was released in Chhattisgarh’s Bhilai district’s Maitri Bagh Zoo in November of last year.

An official stated that the ongoing COVID pandemic had prevented tigers from reproducing for the previous two years. Recently, a tiger and tigress were brought together, and Singham was born in September as a result.

“Breeding among tigers was stopped for the last two years amid the pandemic. Six months ago, we brought Roma (Tigress) and Sultan (Tiger) and had a tiger cub on September 5. We named him Singham. Cub is healthy,” N K Jain told the sources.