Yet Another Excuse To Run Cuteness

The tiger cubs at the zoo are growing up. Gawwwww. Look, they’re learning to eat and play and get weighed!

Koosaka, Changbai, and Terney are about four months old now and averaging about 40 pounds each. They are eating their collective 15 pounds of red meat a day, playing, and scampering around their exhibit at the Zoo’s Big Cat Falls. Now, it’s time to train the cubs so the Zoo’s keepers can take care of them properly. Permanent keeper Tara Brody: “They’re starting to learn some basic behaviors that will help us when they’re bigger to take care of them, like sit and lay down, get on scales. We’re going to have to vaccinate them pretty soon.”

Just too, too cute.

Philly Zoo Keepers Train Its Tiger Cub Trio [KYW 1060]

A Tiger In The Sack

That little furball of cuteness at right most certainly would bring in the crowds to a zoo. And, as such, the Philadelphia Zoo is attempting to create its own little giant-pawed ‘aww’ machine to bring in the crowds. (Maybe not the same tiger species as the one in the photo, but here’s the deal: I don’t care.)

Okay, so the zoo isn’t mating its tigers for monetary reasons. But the zoo did attempt to mate two of its Amur tigers earlier this week. The species is down to just about 400 in the wild and 144 in captivity, but mating the tigers is dangerous, since, instead of having sex, the two could end up attacking each other. The male, Dimitri, could kill the female, Kira, in just about two minutes.

But we all got a treat: The Inquirer was there to document the hot tiger sex.

The result is, basically, tiger porn.

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