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/ 18 March, 2021

Chisinau-based Zoo has four new African lions

Agenția Informațională de Stat

Chisinau, 18 March /MOLDPRES/ - The Chisinau-based Zoological Garden has purchased four African lion cubs.

The Chisinau general mayor, Ion Ceban, said on social networks that three lion cubs (three females and one male), aged six months, had been brought to the Chisinau Zoo. The animals were brought from Kharkiv, Ukraine.

According to the mayor, the animals are in quarantine and visitors will be able to admire them later on.

In last January, 31 new animals were brought to the Zoo, among which lemurs, African lynxes, serval, Patagonia maras, capybara, mountain goats, she-wolves and monkeys. The animals were brought from the zoos of Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk. About 1,100 animals and wild birds are displayed at the Zoological Garden from Moldova’s capital.

photo: facebook.com/Ion.Ceban.public/photos/

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