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More animals reported dead following Siberian tiger death

A total of 26 animals in 15 species were reported dead in January in a zoo in northeast China's Liaoning Province, where massive death of Siberian tigers were reported last week.

The January death toll of animals included four Siberian tigers and 22 other animals, according to a list of animals in the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo, a copy Xinhua obtained from the zoo today.

Some of the dead animals, including one red-crowned crane, four stump-tailed macaque, one rhesus monkey and one brown bear, were under state protection, according to the zoo list, which only registered dead animals in January. The four dead Siberian tigers were included in the 11 Siberian tigers announced dead in the past three months.

Among the dead animals were four camels, one African lion, one yak, one ostrich, one springbok, one dalmatian, and one Mongolian horse, among others, it read. It did not give the reason behind the massive animal death.



 

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