- Western plains Zoo has several tigers of various sub-species.
- The Sumatran subspecies is represented by a pair (1.1.)
- Three Sumatran Tigers were sent from Taronga Zoo when they were old
enough to be seperated from their mother.
- Two have since been sent to other zoo, Ramalon to Melbourne
and Dougall to Mogo via Adelaide.
- The third male tiger, Juara, is still at Western plains. He was born on the
26th October 1995.
- In January or February 2002 a female tiger, three year old Assiqua,
was imported from the Zoo de Doue in France. She
has now arrived at Western Plains and hopefully they will soon breed.
- On her arrival in Australia, Assiqua had to have a tooth capped. It
had been broken on her journey.
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