Chhattisgarh: White tigress 'Raksha' gives birth to 3 cubs; First visuals released

Bhilai: A white tigress, Raksha has given birth to three cubs at Maitri Bagh Zoo in Bhilai, informed officials. The tigress gave birth to the cubs a month and a half back but the Zoo authority released their first visuals on Monday.

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"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.

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In November last year, a two-month-old white tiger named 'Singham' was released in the Maitri Bagh Zoo in Chhattisgarh's Bhilai district. (with ANI inputs)

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