The six names were picked up from total 4200 suggestion given by the Zoo visitors from East Singhbhum district as well as outside Jharkhand, a TSZS sources said.
The names were all selected through lottery on the concluding day function of the week-long Wildlife week organized at the zoo premises.
When contacted in this regard, Bipul Chakraborty, Director of TSZS, told PTI that for the first time in the country, TSZS has sincerely made an effort to involve the general masses to naming the cubs including five lion cobs, which were gifted by the Pretoria-based National Zoo of South Africa recently.
Generally, the dignitaries, ministers or celebrities were being involved to name a lion or tiger cubs in any zoo in the country but for the first time, we have broke the tradition and involved the people in and around Jamshedpur in such function, he said.
While the tiger cub was named Dona, the two male lion cubs were named Edd and Jumbo and the female cubs named as Joya, Kimu and Shaliya, he said.
Referring the week-long function organized to observe the wildlife week, Chakraborty said a record number of children (over 1200) have taken part in a painting competition organized on the occasion.
The turn out was a record in the history of TSZS, he claimed.
