A Royal Bengal tigress has given birth to two healthy twin cubs in a zoo in Jamshedpur, and is attracting visitors' every day.
The big cat, Shanti, also gave birth to a cub, Dona, last year, while the twin cubs' were born a couple of months back.
Shanti was also born in the same zoo, while the male tiger, Raghav, was brought from the zoo in Assam.
Veterinary doctor Manik Palit said, "The tigress has given birth at an old age. The production of milk in her body is comparatively less so we are feeding her one litre of milk everyday so that she could lactate to feed her twin cubs and provide them with calcium. Along with that we are feeding the mother with good quality meat with or without bones or cartilages so that she can produce maximum milk to feed her babies."
Meanwhile, the new born twins have been attracting lots of visitors on a daily basis.
People visiting the enclosure said they felt delighted to watch the twin cubs playing around and entertaining the onlookers.
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"I felt really happy to see the newly born cubs. There are two cubs and this is good message towards our nature," said a visitor, Shilpa Das.
There are an estimated 300 to 500 majestic Royal Bengal tigers in the 10,000 square kilometers Sundarbans forest, which stretches across part of Bangladesh and India and has been designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2012.