Love is in the air for endangered tigers at Dudley Zoo

Love-struck tigers to go on public show next week

Fri 13 Dec 2013

• Dudley Zoo

A tiger couple involved in a major international breeding programme will go on display at Dudley Zoo next week. Daseep and Joao are Sumatran tigers - one of the most critically-endangered breeds of tiger in the world. They have now been introduced face-to-face for the first time - and, once they have settled in to their new environment, visitors to the zoo will be able to view them in their enclosure.

Daseep and Joao the Sumatran tigers in their new enclosure after meeting face-to-face for the first time Credit: Dudley Zoo

It is hoped that Joao and Daseep, who has been labelled the world's second most important female in the genetic pool for the species, will begin to reproduce.

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