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Smuggled tiger cub finds new friend in fellow cub who was abandoned by his mother

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Tiger smuggled across US border gets a new friend
ABOVE: Tiger cub seized at US/Mexico border had finally made a friend in form of a fellow tiger who was abandoned by his mother. – Sep 12, 2017

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Bengal tiger cub that a California man bought on the streets of Tijuana and was seized when he tried to bring it home has a new playmate at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports a nine-week-old Sumatran tiger cub was flown from the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. on Monday to join the other cub.

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The cub bought in Tijuana was confiscated last month after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials found it inside an 18-year-old’s car.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service officials handed the male cat over to the care of the Safari Park.

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Zoo officials have said the mother of the cub at the Washington Zoo had become increasingly aggressive to the male cub.

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