Asim - whose name means 'Protector' in Arabic - had been matched with Melati through the European Endangered Species Programme for Sumatran tigers.Oh, well, I suppose if the current match wasn't working out, then they had no ch...
Wait, hang on a tick.
The 10-year-old female had had three litters with her former mate, Jae Jae...Who has now been moved to a French park. Let's hope he fancies his new dates, eh?
And if this wasn't such a horrible and unnecessary situation, I might be tempted to point out yet another European scheme promising to make things so much better, while in reality making them irreparably worse...
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If they are endangered then I think they would have to spread the genes around to avoid inbreeding.
They would, yes. But it doesn't seem to have worked so well, does it?
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