MOSCOW, June 3 (RIA Novosti) - A Manchurian tiger, kept in the world's largest tiger breeding center in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang, has given birth to six cubs, Xinhua said on Wednesday.
This is the largest litter in the history of the center, which was established in 1986 as an effort to save the endangered big cats. About 800 tigers have since been born and brought up in the center.
Two of the cubs are males. The tigress and her cubs are reported to be in good health.
Manchurian tigers, known as Amur, Siberian or Ussuri tigers in Russia, are listed as endangered on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
