The newest arrivals at the Dehiwala National Zoological Gardens, a pair of White Tigers from China’s Ziang Jiang Safari Park will be on display from today, Assistant Director Research and Aquarium Renuka Bandaranayake told www.news.lk today (02).
She pointed out that the two animals arrived in Sri Lanka on February 24 under an Animal Exchange Programme.
The two white tigers had been tamed and anybody could get near them. “Though they are less than two years old, they are well grown and certainly would be a special addition to the zoo because we never hadwhite tigers before,” she said. Tigers are the biggest cats in the world. They live in steamy hot jungles as well as icy cold forest habitats. There are five different kinds or subspecies of tiger alive in the world today and these tigers are called Siberian, South China, Indo-Chinese, Bengal, and Sumatran. Their Latin name is Panthera tigris, she explained
Courtesy: Government Information Department
