Cold in blacked-out Crimea kills rare Bengal tiger cub

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By Associated Press December 4 at 9:35 AM MOSCOW ? A rare white Bengal tiger cub has died of the cold in Crimea amid a two-week power blackout, the zoo?s director said Friday.
Russian state news agencies quoted Oleg Zubkov, director of the zoo in the Black Sea resort of Yalta, as saying the 6-week-old male cub died after one of two generators at the zoo broke down. Employees have been struggling to keep all the animals warm, he said, adding that other animals are still in danger while the zoo was waiting for a replacement generator to arrive Saturday from Moscow.
?We?ve failed to maintain the temperature regime,? Zubkov told the RIA Novosti news agency. ?These were white Bengal tiger cubs, they are very particular about the warmth.?...

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White tiger cub freezes to death at Crimean zoo after generator?s failure Society & Culture
December 04, 16:29 UTC+3
Crimean prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya blamed the director for the tiger?s death SIMFEROPOL, December 4. /TASS/. A white tiger cub has frozen to death at a zoo in Yalta, a resort city in southern Crimea cut off from Ukrainian power supplies, its director said on Friday.
Oleg Zubkov, who runs the Skazka zoo in Yalta and the Taigan safari park, said that during the power outage, the zoo was being heated by two generators, one of which failed on December 1. "We cannot repair it as it?s made in China and we have problems with spare parts," Zubkov said...