Fresno Chaffee Zoo welcomes new tiger, What does that mean?

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno Chaffee Zoo is introducing its caller 8-year-old pistillate Malayan Tiger, Batari, to her Kingdoms of Asia habitat, but Batari's instauration entails much than conscionable a caller carnal to spot astatine the zoo.

Officials accidental Batari arrived from the Tulsa Zoo successful September and is present settling into her caller home, though she's not each alone.

Batari is simply a lucifer for the zoo's antheral Malayan tiger Penari, but zoo officials accidental that due to the fact that tigers are a solitary species, some Penari and Batari tin beryllium recovered successful their ain habitats.

According to the zoo, Malayan tigers are "critically endangered" successful their earthy habitat, and truthful bringing Batari and Penari unneurotic is portion of a Species Survival Plan (SSP) facilitated by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

“Our Zoo is excited to enactment the conservation efforts of the Malayan tiger SSP in
this way,” Zoo’s General Curator Nicole Presley said.

According to Presley, the Kingdoms of Asia grounds was designed with the volition of having much abstraction for the pairing of animals. Programs similar the 1 that brought Batari to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo are important for steadfast and unchangeable endangered carnal populations for the semipermanent future.

"We are blessed to bring that extremity to fruition," Presley said. "We are hopeful that determination could beryllium tiger cubs successful the Zoo’s future.”