Two Sumatran tiger cubs born at the Amiens zoo in France. The tiger of the Indonesian island of Sumatra is one of the smallest subspecies of the tiger family.
This birth comes 18 months after that of their big brother Pasaï, who is due to leave for the Danish zoo in Aalborg by the summer. There are fewer than 400 left in the wild, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) The cubs have not yet been named, the zoo said, inviting Internet users to participate in choosing their name via social networks. and are beginning to open their eyes and move around.. The animal must face an increased human presence and a disappearance of its natural habitat due to deforestation. In the wild they are distributed in five areas of Indonesia, protected but isolated from each other, making their genetic mixing increasingly difficult. The zoo's work is to maintain the greatest possible genetic diversity of this species in captivity, a “rescue population” in case of extinction.