{"id":183679,"date":"2022-02-08T00:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=183679"},"modified":"2022-02-08T00:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:08:46","slug":"two-royal-bengal-tigers-cubs-born-in-assam-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/08\/two-royal-bengal-tigers-cubs-born-in-assam-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Royal Bengal tigers cubs born in Assam zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, Feb 7 (PTI) Two Royal Bengal tiger cubs were born at the Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden in Guwahati, raising the population of the animal there to nine, a forest department official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tigress Kazi gave birth to the two cubs on February 3 and the mother and the babies are fine, DFO-Zoo Dr Ashwini Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heaters were placed outside their cage and adequate dry straw inside the enclosure to protect them from the cold weather, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kazi had earlier given birth to two cubs in August 2020 and they were named Sultan and Suresh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Environment and Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya has been requested by the zoo authorities to name the newborn cubs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife), Amit Sahai, said Kazi was being provided with a nutritious diet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the arrival of the new inmates, the zoo would be able to attract more visitors now, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, Feb 7 (PTI) Two Royal Bengal tiger cubs were born at the Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden in Guwahati, raising the population of the animal there to nine, a forest department official said on Monday. Tigress Kazi gave birth to the two cubs on February 3 and the mother and the babies are fine, DFO-Zoo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-183679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}