Tiger-the tragedy in the zoo in London

Sumatra-tiger Melati, a threatened with extinction species. Therefore certain dyrepasserne in the London Zoo to introduce her to a potential mate, in the hope that the two could create new offspring in the zoo, reports The Guardian.

Great risk

Dyrepasserne taken into the male Asim from a Danish zoo, but warned that it is always a great risk in encounters between two adult tigers because they don't know each other.

They decided therefore to take tempen on the mood between the two tigerne before they introduced them for each other.

- They have made noises that suggest that they are happy to see each other. It is amazing to see that they are so interested in each other, said dyrepasserne in a statement shortly after Asim came to the London Zoo.

First, ten days later received Asim meeting Melati for the first time, but the meeting went, however, not as planned.

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the Meeting, which took place on Friday morning this week, started well, but later got the two tigerne together and became very aggressive and violent.

- Dyrepasserne tried to distract tigerne with the use of loud noises, flares and alarms, but Asim had already overpowered Melati, type dyrepasserne in a statement.

For each managed dyrepasserne to break in and add hanntigeren over in a separate enclosure, but by then it was unfortunately too late and Melati was already dead.

Broken

- In the day lost to London Zoo our dear sumatratiger Melati. All of the zoo is in despair over the loss of Melati, and we are devastated at what has happened, enter the zoo.

Melati was ten years old. Yesterday was Tiger attraction in the zoo is closed because dyrepasserne would "focus on taking care of Asim."

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