The Zoological Garden of Chisinau purchased four African lion cubs – three females and a male. It is for the first time that the Zoo hosts a family of lions that will be kept in one cage. The animals were donated by the zoological garden of Kharkov, Ukraine, IPN reports.
Zoo director Alexei Hanțațuc has told IPN that a family of lions is usually formed of a male and several females. The cubs brought to the Zoo will live in the same cage when they are older too. Earlier, the Zoological Garden of Chisinau had three lions, but these weren’t from the same family and were kept in separate cages.
The four lion cubs are for now in quarantine and could be seen by visitors later. They are fed on goat’s milk, cow cheese, horse meat and beef and eggs.
The last female lion at the Zoological Garden of Chisinau, aged 22, died last summer. Now the Zoo has over 20 types of felines, such as tigers, wild cats and caracals.
The Chisinau Zoo has over 1,100 animals and birds in total. Thirty-one new animals were brought this January. Seven new species of lemur, caracal, capybara, she-wolves, monkeys and other types of animals were delivered from zoos of the Russian cities of Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk.
