Lion cub born in Mysore zoo

Mysore, Aug 7 (UNI) The century-old Mysore zoo has a new inmate, with the birth of a lion cub in the zoo recently.

Zoo Executive Director Ranga Rao said, in a release here today, that the cub was born to lioness Manini and lion Darshan. Both the mother and cub were in good health.

For eight-year-old Manini, brought here from Nandankanan zoo in 2002 under the zoo exchange programme, this is the third delivery.

Though her first litter - a single cub - died two months after its birth in 2003, the second litter in April 2004 -- three cubs -- were now housed in the Mysore zoo, he said.

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