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More stripes for new zoo. Five-week-old tiger cubs born at the new Metro zoo were let out of their cage for the first time yesterday and the mother, P(...)
More stripes for new zoo. Five-week-old tiger cubs born at the new Metro zoo were let out of their cage for the first time yesterday and the mother, P(...)

More stripes for new zoo. Five-week-old tiger cubs born at the new Metro zoo were let out of their cage for the first time yesterday and the mother, P(...)

Date7/25/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: More stripes for new zoo. Five-week-old tiger cubs born at the new Metro zoo were let out of their cage for the first time yesterday and the mother; Pjasina; lay down with three of the four in a holding pen. She is one of the first Siberian tigers ever to give birth in Canada; and her cubs will be on display when the zoo opens on Aug. 15. Pjasina was bought from a German zoo; her keeper explains that she has to get used to a new language as well as to a different environment and climate.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0116329F
Trio of new tigers in Toronto. Come any nearer and we'll get the old man, Riverdale Zoo's 12-week-old tiger cubs seem to be telling the photographer. (...)
Trio of new tigers in Toronto. Come any nearer and we'll get the old man, Riverdale Zoo's 12-week-old tiger cubs seem to be telling the photographer. (...)
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36 ounces of bear. Only four weeks old and weighing 18 ounces each, these bear cubs were presented to Riverdale zoo by Sudbury department of lands and(...)
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A new set of stripes at the zoo
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A brave smile is managed by 13-year-old Jason Gordon of Hamilton as 10-week old Siberian tiger cub at Metro Zoo tries to showits gratitude to winner o(...)
A brave smile is managed by 13-year-old Jason Gordon of Hamilton as 10-week old Siberian tiger cub at Metro Zoo tries to showits gratitude to winner o(...)
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Zoo goes too fur. So far in 1980, Metro Toronto Zoo has become the haven of nine orphaned bear cubs, seven blacks and two polars. Dr. Bill Rapley, the(...)
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A ghost tiger cub making his public debut takes a swipe at his mother, Kivali, yesterday at the Metro zoo
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Already showing what its stripes are made of-although it's only 2 weeks old, 10 inches long and weighs in at 3 pounds-this Siberian tiger needs a name(...)
Already showing what its stripes are made of-although it's only 2 weeks old, 10 inches long and weighs in at 3 pounds-this Siberian tiger needs a name(...)
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Mother and . . . Caroline, 11-year-old gorilla at Metro Zoo with her first baby which was born May 18 but whose sex zoo officials can't tell to this d(...)
Mother and . . . Caroline, 11-year-old gorilla at Metro Zoo with her first baby which was born May 18 but whose sex zoo officials can't tell to this d(...)
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Polar bear Sanikiluaq enjoyed a carrot while showing off her new cub at the Metro zoo yesterday
Polar bear Sanikiluaq enjoyed a carrot while showing off her new cub at the Metro zoo yesterday
4/8/1993
A baby giraffe born New Year's Day chooses a perfect time to get his first look outside at the Metro zoo
A baby giraffe born New Year's Day chooses a perfect time to get his first look outside at the Metro zoo
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Lappin' leopard. Attendant Sam Heaney feeds a 13-day-old baby leopard born at Riverdale zoo. The cub is the only survivor of three. And, boy, is he a hungry one
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