In the Yalta zoo "Skazka" from the cold as a result of power outages, died of a Bengal tiger in white color - rare species of the tiger listed in the Red book, said Last news Director of the zoo Oleh Zubkov.

according to his statement, the zoo due to the current difficult situation with energy supply in the area could not by its own generation to supply the tigers a necessary thermal mode.

"We are unable to supply the thermal regime, this Bengali white tiger cubs, they are very demanding to heat them just a month and a half, they are brought up without a mother. We have a large collection, we have fifteen hundred animals and birds, they all need attention: and the sea animals, and fish, and reptiles, and monkeys. At all, unfortunately, a lack of heat. But the situation is, I think, will soon be corrected ", - said Zubkov.

The head of Department has noticed that the zoo is making every possible effort to Express the support of the heat mode for the remaining 2 white tiger cubs.

except for 2 remaining small cubs in the Crimean zoo "Skazka" and " Taigan ", since there are two pairs of adult Bengal tigers.

Zubkov has noticed that Bengal tigers belong to Russia, there are 135 individuals.

more weeks worked in stand-alone mode. The Peninsula was completely de-energized in the night of November 22, as a result of undermining 2 transmission poles coming from the Ukraine. In Crimea and Sevastopol, imposed a state of emergency, schedules of emergency outages.

Ten days later the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin arrived in the Crimea and has launched the first phase of the power bridge from the Krasnodar region through the Kerch Strait, which gave the Peninsula a further 230 MW, until December 20, is still 230 MW, which will allow us to significantly reduce the shortage of electrical energy.

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