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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Jelita, a Bengal tigress that gave birth to two cubs Huru and Hara, in July 2025, is seen in its enclosure at Bandung Zoo in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia on March 26, 2026. — AFP pic
BANDUNG, March 27 — Two Bengal tiger cubs born in Indonesia’s Bandung Zoo last year have died from a viral infection, a conservation official told AFP on Friday.
The cubs, two males named Huru and Hara, were born last July to tigress Jelita, who remains in good health.
According to the conservation agency of West Java province, the cubs were infected at birth with the Feline Panleukopenia virus (FPV), which can sicken wild and domestic cats and is particularly dangerous for young animals.
Hara died on the 24th, two days after falling ill, and despite veterinary efforts to save him, Huru followed two days later, agency spokesman Eri Mildrayana told AFP.
The cubs had suffered from diarrhoea, vomiting and lethargy in the days before they died.
Bandung mayor Muhammad Farhan, in a social media post Thursday, said the news had left him “very sad.”
“This is an important lesson for us. The step that we can take right now is to improve biosecurity,” he wrote on Instagram.
The US National Institutes of Health says FPV is also referred to as “cat plague” or “feline distemper” and usually occurs in unvaccinated or improperly vaccinated captive felines.
The Bandung Zoo in West Java has been closed for months due to what officials have described as internal management problems.
Bandung Zoo in West Java, Indonesia – where two Bengal tiger cubs were born in July 2025 and died in March 2026 of ‘cat plague’ or Feline Panleukopenia virus (FPV) – has been closed for months. — AFP pic
In 2017, activists demanded the zoo’s closure after skeletal sun bears were pictured begging for food from visitors and eating their own dung.
AFP was unable to reach Bandung city authorities in charge of running the zoo.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Bengal tiger is an endangered species, with fewer than 4,000 still in the wild – mostly in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan. — AFP
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