ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Bengal tiger cub discovered by Albuquerque police in a canine crate final month now has a brand new residence in Colorado.
Officers on the ABQ BioPark Zoo, the place the 4-month-old cub has been receiving care, instructed the Albuquerque Journal that he was transferred to The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado.
Caretakers there have named him Duke after Albuquerque’s nickname of Duke Metropolis.
Albuquerque law enforcement officials served search warrants Jan. 10 on two residences in response to suggestions {that a} tiger was being illegally held at one in every of them.
Authorities noticed a blood path and adopted it to an unlocked trailer and that’s the place the tiger was discovered.
New Mexico bans residents from preserving tigers as pets and federal legislation now prohibits non-public house owners from preserving tigers as pets or for breeding functions.
BioPark Zoo officers stated the cub couldn’t stick with them as a result of he was too “people-oriented.” Additionally, he’ll finally develop to be 400 kilos with lengthy claws that may simply kill.
He needed to endure a 30-day quarantine interval there. Throughout that point, the zoo labored with the New Mexico Division of Recreation and Fish to search out the tiger a everlasting residence.
As a result of his genetic lineage was unknown, the animal was ineligible for a breeding program or zoo accredited by the Affiliation of Zoos and Aquariums.
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