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Tigress Cinderella became a Mother!

In February 2012, in the forest in the south-west of Primorye Territory hunters found a small tiger, then betrothed Cinderella. She was about 6 months old, and she was dying of starvation and frostbite. The tigress was caught by quarantine and after treatment and placed in a rehabilitation center where recovery took a special course: Learn how to avoid danger, to hunt for tigers typical objects.

At the beginning of 2013 the specialists, it was decided to release to the nature Cinderella. The choice fell on the reserve "Bastak", which already lived a lonely male cherished with which it was hoped the scientists will be able to create a couple of tiger.

Since then, like a tigress Cinderella found her home in this reserve, it took two and a half years. During these years, we have conducted continuous monitoring of Cinderella: start with the help of GPS-collars, then footsteps in the snow, and in the last year and a half and with the help of camera traps. Over the entire period of observations received more than a thousand pictures of Cinderella and Cherished.


It is impossible to convey how excited we viewed footage shot camera traps, how happy everyone, even not very good pictures, because thanks to them we know that Cinderella is alive and continues to inhabit in our reserve. And, of course, nurtured the hope of ever seeing the photograph of her cubs.

Looking through the pictures in September-October this year, we have noticed some changes in the appearance of the tigress, which suggested that the recently Cinderella became a mother.
And now we have evidence - we got the first shots of the tigers! Their Cinderella and cherished two!

The appearance of the offspring at the tigress major event, symbolizing the beginning of the restoration of the Amur tiger population in the territory of the Jewish Autonomous Region.

Link (in Russian): http://www.bastak-eao.ru/index.php/zapov...tala-mamoj

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