Baghdad Zoo Adds Two Tigers to Growing Menagerie

The Baghdad Zoo today showed off two rare Bengal tiger cubs, which were donated by the Conservators’ Center animal sanctuary in North Carolina. The tigers, named Hope and Riley, weigh about 150 pounds each and arrived in Iraq on Aug. 4, traveling from the U.S. via DHL.

The zoo is an extremely popular attraction in Baghdad, with more than one million people visiting the zoo recently over a four-day period, when thousands of Shiites visited Baghdad for a religious holiday. That marks a big change from 2006, when the zoo averaged 120 visitors per day, according to Dr. Adel Salman Mousa, the zoo’s director.

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