Name: Kuza. Sex: Male. Age: 3. Weight: 450-plus pounds. Kuza is Yuri's
brother and also comes from to Grand Rapids from Rosamond Gifford Zoo in
Syracuse, N.Y. Unlike Yuri, Kuza is cautious and timid. When the tigers
got a cardboard box with meat treats for their first birthday, Yuri
ripped into it while Kuza shied away. (Photo courtesy of Catherine N.
Stolz)
Part of John Ball Zoo's new Crawford Tigers of the Realm exhibit is
scheduled to open June 14, 2014. A trail and lower habitat area is
slated to open in 2015.
Krapinka was the last tiger on exhibit at John Ball Zoo. The female Amur
tiger in 2009 was moved to Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, N. D. In this
2007 photo, she strolls through the zoo's old tiger exhibit as
preschoolers from Legacy Christian School in Culterville watch.
(MLive.com file)
Urod was 17 years old when he died at John Ball Zoo in 2006, leaving one
female tiger who was moved out of the zoo three years later.
Nicole, an Amur tiger born at John Ball Zoo in 1998, died in March at the Oregon Zoo. (Photo by Michael Durham/Oregon Zoo)
Yuri, left, and Kuza toy with a snowman. The two 3-year-old male Amur
tigers have moved to John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids and will be part of a
new Crawford Tigers of the Realm exhibit set to open in June. (Photo
courtesy of Catherine N. Stolz)
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on May 16, 2014
on May 16, 2014
Nika, a female, and two males, brothers Kuza and Yuri, moved this week to the Kent County zoo at 1300 W. Fulton St. They will be quarantined for a couple weeks before the zoo’s new Crawford Tigers of the Realm exhibit opens next month, spokeswoman Krys Bylund said.
The exhibit in the zoo’s Idema Forest Realm is scheduled to open to the public Saturday, June 14.
Nika, a 9-year-old, came from Potter Park Zoo in Lansing. She is unrelated to the two male tigers now at John Ball Zoo.
Kuza and Yuri are 3-year-old brothers who came from Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, N.Y. Each weighs about 450 pounds.
The new arrivals are Amur tigers, which are native to Siberia and have a life expectancy of 14 years for females and 16 years for males.
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