white tiger cub death Nandankanan
The white tiger cub death in Nandankanan exposes everything wrong with zoo breeding. Born weak, weighing only 650 grams, and suffering limb deformities, the cub never had a chance. By June 11 it could not suckle, was shifted to an incubator, and endured infections, weakness, and round-the-clock interventions. Despite every procedure, the cub remained unable to stand. Yesterday it died.
This is not conservation. It is cruelty disguised as care. White tiger cubs are inbred for profit and spectacle, not survival. Their birth defects, arthritis, and fused joints are predictable results of reckless breeding. The surviving sibling now faces her own deformities, a lifetime of pain inside cages.
Nandankanan boasts of 28 tigers, including 5 whites and 4 blacks. Numbers paraded as achievements. But these statistics mask a darker truth: zoos manufacture suffering to attract visitors. The white tiger cub death in Nandankanan is not tragic—it is inevitable. The only solution is to ban this practice.
