Tiger immediately mauls female tiger to death at London Zoo moments after keepers introduced them hoping they would mate
Daily Mail
February 8, 2019
London Zoo's beloved female tiger Melati has been brutally mauled to death by her potential new mate while the two beasts were being introduced.
The zoo says 10-year-old Melati died on Friday during her first encounter with Asim, a seven-year-old male who was shipped in from Denmark last month.
The two tigers had been kept in adjoining enclosures for 10 days so they could get used to one another, but their first meeting 'quickly escalated into a more aggressive interaction.'
The zoo says keepers intervened with loud noises, flares and alarms but were too late to save Melati.
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BAD FIRST DATE
by Bob Walsh
Asim is an endangered Sumatran Tiger and is a new resident at the prestigious London Zoo. A couple of days ago he was introduced to Melati, a female Sumatran Tiger and a long-term resident of the zoo. They were introduced to each other in the hopes they would get together and help repopulate the species. They were put in adjoining pens for a few days so they could scope each other out and get used to each other's presence. They were then allowed to get together in the same pen.
It didn't work out so well. Asim became aggressive and killed Melati. Zoo keepers were standing by with noise makers, flares and other distraction devices as introductions between large cats sometimes, maybe even often, go badly. The tiger was too fast and the distractions were inadequate. Damn shame.
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