Rome zoo shows off two lion cubs born under lockdown

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Rome zoo shows off two lion cubs born under lockdown

ROME: A Rome zoo showed off two lions cubs on Friday, both born during the city'south long coronavirus lockdown.

Staff said the sisters were the first Asiatic lions born at Bioparco zoo since it started keeping the endangered species 22 years agone.

"A true symbol of promise and resurgence," Rome'southward mayor Virginia Raggi said as she welcomed the news.

Seven-twelvemonth-old mother Sajani and four-year-old male parent Ravi looked on as the cubs posed for pictures. At i point they had a play fight with their mother's tail before she whisked information technology away.

The zoo said it was planning to launch a social media campaign to inquire people to name the cubs.

Sajani gave nativity on Apr 29, her own altogether.

"We saw just two days before that she was behaving kind of foreign, and we suspected she was pregnant," keeper Yitzhak Yadid said.

Staff merely knew for certain the cubs had survived when they heard small yelps coming from Sajani'due south enclosure

"Non all mothers can succeed normally the showtime fourth dimension that they give birth. She'southward a very, very good mother," Yadid said.

(Reporting by Antonio Denti and Emily Roe; Writing by Angelo Amante; Editing past Andrew Heavens)

Rome zoo shows off two lion cubs born under lockdown

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