Photo of the Day #55: Amur Tiger Cub

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This is one of the three Amur Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) born this past year at the Philadelphia Zoo. Despite such breeding success in captivity, however, it is difficult to release captive bred tigers back into the wild and animals bred in zoos do not contribute to replenishing depleted wild stocks (which sadly seems to be the case with many critically threatened big cats species).

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