Tiger cubs named!

By News Staff

Posted Jun 22, 2012 11:44 am.

This article is more than 5 years old.

The Calgary Zoo has named its two male tiger cubs after many submissions from the public.

One has been named Samkha which means sacred and the other Vasili, meaning royal or kingly.

There were close to 25-hundred entries.

The cubs sister has not been named yet. That honor goes to a sponsor who bout the right from a zoo fundraising event.

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