14 DAY TRIAL // This Halloween, visitors to the San Antonio Zoo in the US were frightened out of their minds by a pair of vicious twin tiger cubs that were busy practicing their hunting skills on some unfortunate pumpkins that keepers were cruel enough to set loose in their enclosure.
Zoo Borns tells us that the Sumatran tiger cubs are both female, and that they were born at this facility some time ago, on August 3, to mother Kemala.
Because the latter has never been a mom before, zoo employees decided to keep the birth of these two furballs a secret, at least until they were sure that nothing bad was going to happen and that the tiger cubs were both healthy.
Now that the two sisters are strong and confident enough to be able to handle the stress of being in the public eye, they have been allowed to leave their den and hang out in an outdoor enclosure, together with their mom.
To keep them safe, keepers have decided to move their dad, Raguno, to another enclosure.
Conservationists say that, according to recent reports, less than 400 tigers belonging to this species currently inhabit the island of Sumatra. This makes these big cats a critically endangered species.