Tiger playing in water

Tiger playing in the pond.
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That is Katinka. A female Amur Tiger born to Deja and Mirko on the 19th April 2007. Her twin Makari was sent to Wildlife Heritage Foundation Spring/Summer last year.

The Mirko who was born in Hamburg/Germany? So she is a hybrid too?

Mirko is the Male the father of Katinka and was born in Hamburg Zoo in 1998 The mother Deja was born in Leningrad Zoo in Russia in 1996.From what i have heard they are not sure who is the hybrid but its seems very slight maybe down from 4 or so generations it has not been recognised. The pair are getting quite old now and may only breed 1 more litter.I hope this is useful to you

So i know him Mirkos father is Sascha and his father is not a altaica So she is a hybrid.

Does anybody know where Katinka will go?

The last i heard she may be going to another zoo to form a breeding pair or they will swap Mirko and Deja who are her parents for a new male. The decision has been holted due to the Hybrid confusion as far as i know.

This is a lovely photo !

Thanks to this forum, I now know that the 3 tigers I saw the other day at Linton were Katinka, and her parents Mirko and Deja. As ever, the info at the tiger enclosure was sadly lacking (and it would be such a relatively quick and inexpensive "added value" task to print up some basic info sheets and stick them under the perspex they have there which currently contains a jumble of printed articles !)

2 of the tigers were out - don't know which ones - while the 3rd was in the holding cage at the back of the enclosure. I don't know if this is normal practice, but am guessing they wouldn't have father and daughter out together ?

They have Deja and Katinka out in the main enclosure and Mirko in the smaller pen during they day and they then swap around at night. The viewing hut i thought is full of loads of info to look at.
Katinka is great fun to watch

Thanks for confirming that Riziki - that's what I thought.

The viewing hut has quite a bit of info about tigers and conservation generally, but little about the tigers which are actually there .....

..... I admit I have a particular bee in my bonnet about specific info. So many zoos, in my experience, fall down in this regard. I personally like to know how old an animal is, what sex they are (it's not always obvious !), what their name is (if they have one) and what, if any, the family relationship is to any other animals in the same enclosure. If you're a returning visitor, I think it's natural to be curious about this. All this could be printed up and laminated for very little cost or effort.

Additionally, say, for a period of a year, it'd be interesting to have details about departed animals displayed - whether that be to another zoo, or through death ...... so you don't end up wondering "whatever happened to" a particular creature you once saw forever more.

This kind of info is really hit and miss ...... some zoos are much better than others at keeping visitors fully up to date which makes them feel involved (and therefore more likely, IMO, to return again). Others put the info on their website, but not at the zoo. I find it really frustrating as it's such a simple fix ..... I don't want fancy printed plaques, a laminated sheet would do me.

Linton isn't alone in this respect. For example, Chester has lots of info about its chimps and elephants (with ages, pictures, advice on how to identify an individual etc.) yet it doesn't have the same sort of info up about the orangs in RORA ....... even though the Sumatrans there are a lovely family group with adult sisters and their offspring who are all either brother or sister or 1st cousins to each other. Grrrrrrrr.