Meet Rocky and Jaggar, two endangered tigers making their debut in North Carolina
Two endangered Sumatran tigers made their public debut this week in a new exhibit at the Greensboro Science Center.
Tiger brothers Rocky and Jaggar came to North Carolina from Florida’s Jacksonville Zoo earlier this month. They got to start exploring their new outdoor exhibit Thursday.
“With the boys only being two years old, we are going to get to watch them grow and mature here at the GSC. They are only about 180lbs right now and could grow up to 310lbs,” Greensboro Science Center’s lead tiger keeper Carolyn Mikulskis said.
“It has been so much fun to work with the tiger brothers over the last couple of weeks. Getting to know their personalities has been amazing and I am so excited for all of our guests to get to see them! They are full of energy,” she said in a post on the Science Center blog.
The Science Center has done a lot of work on the tiger exhibit. “Waterfalls, bridges, rocks, scratching posts, climbing structures, shade structures and a cave have all been recently added,” the center said.
There are fewer than 500 Sumatran tigers left in the wild, according to National Geographic.
They are “indigenous only to the island of Sumatra, Indonesia,” National Geographic said, and are the smallest of the tiger species.
