Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park an 8-year-old Siberian tiger gave birth to sextuplets, all survived, the world's rare.

The cubs are expected to meet with visitors three months later.

Labled as "H-01-204", the mother tiger accompanies two female and four male cubs taking afternood nap, some cubs wake up not yet open their eyes, curiously climbing around their mother. The mother tiger is kindly licking these baby tigers.

Temperature control is being setup to keep the tiger place warm and 24 hours monitoring facility is in place to guarantee all cubs will survive.

According to the staff of the Tiger Park , giving birth to quadruplets is not easy already, a sextuplets? It is the first time in the Tiger Park. Currently only three Siberian tigers gave birth of 6 cubs, the latest one was over than 20 years ago.

At present, Tiger Park begins to increase eggs, milk, chickens and other nutritional supplements to ensure mother tiger having adequate milk to nurse these babies.

In 2009, Tiger Park is expected to have more than 100 just born tigers to bring the tiger population over 1000.

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