A Sumatran Tiger cub born at Zoo
Praha is getting supplemental feedings from zoo keepers because his mother is
not fully caring for him, possibly a result of her tranquilization and
evacuation during catastrophic flooding in the Czech Republic in June.

Photo Credit: Tomáš Adamec, Prague Zoo

Despite the cub’s rocky start, he is
thriving.  Construction crews have halted
repair work on the Tigers’ exhibit, which was damaged in the flood, to allow
the mother, Surami, to bond peacefully with her cub.

The baby boy is the third generation
of a Sumatran Tiger “dynasty” at Zoo Praha: 
his father, Falco, was born at the zoo in 2007, and his grandfather,
Dustin, was born there in 1994.

Sumatran Tigers are in peril in their
native home in Sumatra, Indonesia.  Fewer than 400 of these cats are thought to remain in the wild, clinging to isolated patches
of intact rain forest.