article_snippet.sent: A zoo in Ohio is celebrating the 'miracle' birth of three rare Amur tiger cubs after A zoo in Ohio was feared three rare Amur tiger cubs mother's biological clock had stopped ticking.
article_snippet.sent: Open wide: A zoo in Ohio Ohio is celebrating the 'miracle' birth of three rare Amur tiger cubs Amur after it was feared three rare Amur tiger cubs had stopped ticking .
article_snippet.sent: We are always cautiously optimistic about the survival of fragile newborns,' said A zoo in Ohio president Tom Stalf. '
article_snippet.sent: But the cubs seem to be thriving under the 24-hour care provided by our animal specialists and veterinarians.'
article_snippet.sent: keepers are the first cubs for ten-year-old female, Irisa, although the Zoo team and the Tiger Species Survival Plan (SSP) had hoped for years ten-year-old Irisa would reproduce and pass on ten-year-old Irisa valuable genes.
article_snippet.sent: Gestation for tigers is about three-and-a-half months which means the cubs were conceived just weeks before Foli left for another facility in Kansas on February 25.
article_snippet.sent: A new male tiger, Jupiter, arrived at the Columbus Zoo on March 19.
article_snippet.sent: Jupiter was born at the Columbus Zoo in 2007 and came to the Columbus Zoo from the Columbus Zoo in the Czech Republic.
article_snippet.sent: Both males were moved at the recommendation of the Species Survival Plan in an effort to maintain a sustainable population of tigers in human care.
article_snippet.sent: With the addition of the cubs there are currently ten Amur tigers at the Columbus Zoo including four cubs born in 2013 and Both males mother, Mara.